Workshop Quantum Foundations: New frontiers in testing quantum mechanics from underground to the space

29 Nov 2017, 09:40 → 1 Dec 2017, 13:30 Europe/Rome

Aula Conversi (Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati INFN)

Alessandro Scordo (LNF), Catalina Oana Curceanu (LNF)

                                 

               

The aim of the “New frontiers in testing quantum mechanics from underground to the space” workshop is to discuss the possible limits of validity of quantum mechanics, including the theories which go beyond the standard quantum mechanics, as well as experiments aiming to test them. The role which gravity may play in this context will be discussed, together with future strategies.

Testing quantum mechanics in experiments performed in underground laboratories, in earth-based laboratories and in space, in order to make a decisive step forward towards a deeper understanding of quantum mechanics and of the observational process, if fundamental for a deeper understanding of Nature and Universe and also for the future quantum technologies.

The workshop is organized in the framework of the Foundational Questions Institute, FQXi, 2017 mini-grant Spring project: Observers and Observations from Underground to Space, and is sponsored by the Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche Enrico Fermi, Roma, by INFN and by the John Templeton Foundation (" Hunt for the “impossible atoms” project).

Organizers:

Angelo Bassi, Univ. and INFN Trieste, Italy
Catalina Curceanu, LNF-INFN, Italy (Chair)
Johann Marton, SMI-Vienna, Austria
Kristian Piscicchia, Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche Enrico Fermi Roma, and LNF-INFN Frascati (Roma), Italy
Alessandro Scordo, LNF-INFN, Italy

Wednesday, 29 November

09:40 → 13:30 Chair: J. Marton

09:40 Registration

10:10 Welcome Address

10:30 Fundamental Physics with (Weird) Magnetic Resonance

Speaker: Prof. Dmitry BUDKER (University of California at Berkeley)

Slides budker.pdf

11:00 Coffee Break

11:30 Test of discrete symmetries with neutral kaons at KLOE-2

Speaker: Antonio Di Domenico (ROMA1)

Slides didomenico_LNF_quantumWS_5_web_corr.pdf

12:00 When Cavendish meets Feynman: A quantum torsion balance for testing the quantumness of gravity

Speaker: Matteo Carlesso (TS)

Slides Carlesso_Frascati_Noveber_2017.pdf

12:30 Testing Quantum Mechanics with Weak Protective Measurements

Speaker: Dr Fabrizio Piacentini (INRIM)

Slides 2017_Piacentini_frascati_upload.pdf

13:00 Testing Quantum Foundation Via The Decay Of Positronium

Speaker: Dr Beatrix Hiesmayr (University of Vienna)

13:30 → 14:45 Lunch

14:45 → 17:45 Chair: B. Hiesmayr

14:45 Non-locality in background-base pre-quantum theories

Speaker: Sandro Donadi (TS)

Slides Donadi.pptx

15:15 Testing Dynamical Reduction Models at the Gran Sasso Underground Laboratory

Speaker: Mr Kristian Piscicchia (LNF)

Slides piscicchia.pdf

15:45 Quantum Violation of an Instrumental Test

Speaker: Dr FABIO SCIARRINO (Dipartimento di fisica)

Slides SciarrinoNetwork-Frascati.pdf

16:15 Non-perturbative treatment of non-Markovian dynamics of open quantum systems

Speaker: Andrea Smirne (TS)

Slides smirne-frascati-2017.pdf

Thursday, 30 November

09:30 → 13:30 Chair: K. Piscicchia

09:30 Principle of least decoherence in semiclassical gravity

Speaker: Prof. Lajos Diosi (Wigner Research Center for Physics)

Slides diosi.pdf

10:00 The VIP2 experiment at LNGS: Search for Pauli-forbidden atomic transitions

Speaker: Dr Johann Marton (Stefan Meyer Institute)

Slides Workshop-LNF-JMarton-Talk-26Nov17.pdf

10:30 The Thirring quantum cellular automaton

Speaker: Alessandro Tosini

Slides tosini.pdf

11:00 Coffee Break

11:30 Gravitational tests using simultaneous atom interferometers"

Speaker: Gabriele Rosi (FI)

Slides QWF-Rosi.pdf

12:00 Master equations for collisional models

Speaker: Bassano Vacchini (MI)

Slides vacchini.pdf

12:30 Quantum optical control of mechanics

Speaker: Lorenzo Magrini

Slides magrini.pdf

13:00 Tests of the Pauli Exclusion Principle in bulk matter and their open problems: the case of the VIP experiment

Speaker: Edoardo Milotti (TS)

Slides milotti.pdf

13:30 → 14:45 Lunch

14:45 → 17:45 Chair: A. Scordo

14:45 Nonequilibrium quantum bounds to Landauer's principle

Speaker: Steven Campbell (MI)

Slides 2017-Talk_Frascati_Campbell.pdf

15:15 Non-Markovian dynamics beyond the Gaussian ansatz

Speaker: Luca Ferialdi (TS)

Slides Ferialdi_nov2017.pdf

15:45 Coffee Break

16:15 From Quantum Cellular Automata to Doubly Special Relativity

Speaker: Alessandro Bisio (Pavia)

Slides QCA_Frascati_Bisio.pdf

16:45 Quantum enhanced measurements: from ultra-high sensitivity in absorption measurements to detection of quantum gravity effects

Speaker: Mrs Elena Losero (INRiM)

Slides slides_frascati2_losero.pdf

17:15 Chiral Simmetry restoration in heavy ion collisions

Speaker: Dr Oton Vazquez Doce (LNF)

Slides vazquez.pdf

20:00 → 23:00 Workshop Dinner

Friday, 1 December

09:30 → 13:30 Chair: A. Bassi

09:30 Cosmic Inflation and Quantum Mechanics I: Concepts

Speaker: Mr Jerome Martin (CNRS)

Slides Jmartin.ppt

10:00 Cosmic Inflation and Quantum Mechanics II: Applications

Speaker: Vincent Vennin

Slides Frascati2017_Vennin.pdf

10:30 EVENT: EPS Emmy Noether Prize – assigned to Catalina Curceanu, with participation of Lucia Di Ciaccio, European Physics Society

Speakers: Dr Catalina Oana Curceanu (LNF), Lucia Di Ciaccio

Slides diciaccio.pdf

11:30 Coffee Break

11:50 Quantum Mechanics under test along Space channels

Speaker: Paolo Villoresi

Slides Workshop_Quantum_Foundations-_New_frontiers_in_testing_quantum_mechanics_from_underground_to_the_space1Dec2017_Villoresi_s.pdf

12:20 Discrete symmetries tests in the positronium decays with the J-PET detector

Speaker: Mr Michal Zbigniew Silarski (LNF)

Slides Silarski_Frascati_01-12-2017.pdf

12:50 Relational quantum mechanics: the case for a quantum spacetime

Speaker: Lorenzo Maccone

Slides maccone.pdf

13:20 Farewell