An Indication From the Magnitude of CP Violations that Gravitation is a Possible Cause of Wave-Function Collapse
| dc.creator | Fivel, Daniel I. | |
| dc.date | 1997-10-16 | |
| dc.date | 1997-11-05 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T06:14:29Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T06:14:29Z | |
| dc.description | We consider experimental evidence for the hypothesis that the Planck energy, $E_p \approx 10^{19}GeV$, sets the scale $ε$ at which wave function collapse causes deviations from linear Schrödinger evolution. With a few plausible assumptions about the collapse process, we first show that the observed CP violation in $K_L$ decay implies a lower bound on $ε$ remarkably close to $E_p$. If the bound is saturated, the entire CP violation is due to collapse and a prediction made that the branching ratio for CP violation in the B meson decay will be $γ\approx 10^{-5}$. We then show that the assumptions are consequences of a simple non-linear, stochastic modification of the Schrödinger equation with $ε$ setting the scale of the non-linearity. | |
| dc.description | 6 pages, 0 figures, plain TeX | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9710042 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9710042 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/93478 | |
| dc.subject | Quantum Physics | |
| dc.subject | General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Theory | |
| dc.title | An Indication From the Magnitude of CP Violations that Gravitation is a Possible Cause of Wave-Function Collapse | |
| dc.type | text |