Workshop: Is Quantum Theory exact? Exploring Quantum Boundaries.

10 Dec 2020, 09:00 → 11 Dec 2020, 18:00 Europe/Rome

Catalina Curceanu

 

The aim of the workshop is to discuss the possible boundaries and limits of validity of the quantum mechanics theory and the implications of this research in various sectors.

From the theoretical point of view, since the famous Einstein-Bohr debate, quantum mechanics never stopped raising deep questions about its meaning. In particular, the transition from the microscopic world, where systems are observed in a superposition of quantum states, to the macroscopic world, where systems have well defined properties, such as position (the so-called “measurement problem”), still puzzles the scientific community and philosophers. For this reason, (some) scientists are pushed to look for explanations, including theories beyond the standard quantum one.

From the experimental point of view, quantum mechanics is, undoubtedly, the best verified available theory and a pillar to all our science. It is therefore a very compelling challenge to look for possible small violations predicted by alternative quantum theories. The aim is either to put stronger observational bounds on the new theories, i.e. on model's parameters, or, much more exciting, to find a violation of standard quantum mechanics when compared with the new theories' predictions. In this framework, a deeper understanding of the possible limits of validity of the quantum superposition principle is an interesting experimental challenge.

The workshop also represents the kick-off of the FQXi project (FQXi-RFP-CPW-2008) ICON: Novel intertwined theoretical and experimental approach to test the ORCHestrated Objective Reduction theory as physical basis of consciousness, and is supported by the UE-H2020-FETOPEN-2016-2017
TEQ  project- Testing the Large-Scale limit of Quantum Mechanics  (G.A. n. 766900 FET-TEQ).

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Organizers:

Catalina Curceanu (LNF-INFN) , Chair

Magdalena Skurzok (LNF-INFN)

Kristian Piscicchia (Centro Fermi)

Fabrizio Napolitano (LNF-INFN)

 

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The workshop will take place online, on webex platform.
For those who wish to get an overwiew of how webex works we recommend:
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The webex links to the workshop (one for each day) will be sent the day before the workshop.

The program timing refers to the UTC+1 time zone (i.e. Italy timing)

 

 

Thursday, 10 December

1 Welcome

Speaker: Fabio Bossi (LNF-INFN Director); Catalina Curceanu

Session: Morning #1

Convener: Beatrix Hiesmayr (University of Vienna)

2 What makes the universe tick: searching for the quantum origins of time

Speaker: Joan Vaccaro

video of the talk

3 Quantum superposition of processes with opposing thermodynamic arrows of time

Speaker: Caslav Brukner

video of the talk

11:00 Coffee break

4 Collapse Models

Speaker: Angelo Bassi

video of the talk

Session: Morning #2

Convener: Beatrix Hiesmayr (University of Vienna)

5 The dynamics of difference

Speaker: Lee Smolin

video of the talk

6 How effectively can we test Quantum Gravity with Underground Experiments?

Speaker: Antonino Marcianò

video of the talk

12:45 Lunch break

Session: Afternoon #1

Convener: Kristian Piscicchia

7 Testing fundamental physics with trapped particles

Speaker: Hendrik Ulbricht

video of the talk

8 Can quantum metrology solve some of the biggest questions in fundamental physics?

Speaker: Ivette Fuentes Guridi

video of the talk

9 Advances on quantum advantage with photons

Speaker: Fabio Sciarrino

video of the talk

15:30 Coffee break

Session: Afternoon #2

Convener: Kristian Piscicchia

10 Testing collapse models using levitated nano-oscillators

Speaker: Peter Barker

video of the talk

11 In 100 years from quantum physics to quantum biology. How long to quantum medicine?

Speaker: Jack Tuszynski

video of the talk

12 Probing a Gravitational cat state: Theoretical issues and experimental possibilities

Speaker: Maaneli Derakhshani

video of the talk

13 Between the performed measurements of quantum fields

Speaker: Peter Morgan

video of the talk

Friday, 11 December

14 Welcome

Speaker: Catalina Curceanu

15 CAN A QUBIT BE YOUR FRIEND? Why experimental metaphysics needs a quantum computer

Speaker: Howard Wiseman

video of the talk

Session: Morning #1

Convener: Magdalena Skurzok (L)

16 Perspectives for the investigations of quantum entanglement of high energy photons with the J-PET scanner

Speaker: Paweł Moskal

video of the talk

17 Entanglement in higher dimensions reveals novel structures of the set of separable states

Speaker: Beatrix C. Hiesmayr

18 Sequential weak measurements for reutilizing entanglement

Speaker: Giulio Foletto

SlidesIQTENoAnim.pdf

video of the talk

11:00 Coffee break

19 Search for Dark Matter bosons through precise isotope shift measurements in Ca+ ions

Speaker: Michael Drewsen

video of the talk

Session: Morning #2

Convener: Magdalena Skurzok (L)

20 Pauli Exclusion Principle violations and quantum gravity

Speaker: Andrea Addazi

video of the talk

21 The Diósi-Penrose model under X-rays

Speaker: Sandro Donadi

video of the talk

22 Why nonlinearity?

Speaker: Tamas Geszti

video of the talk

13:15 Lunch break

Session: Afternoon #1

Convener: Catalina Oana Curceanu (LNF)

23 The "strange" entanglement of neutral K mesons: a powerful tool and a case study

Speaker: Antonio di Domenico

video of the talk

24 Schrödinger-Newton equation: fundamental difficulties and attempts to relax them

Speaker: Lajos Diosi

video of the talk

25 An underground survey of Quantum Mechanics foundations

Speaker: Kristian Piscicchia

video of the talk

16:00 Coffee break

26 Effective Retro-activity in Quantum State Reduction

Speaker: Roger Penrose – Guest Lecturer

roger_penrose_talk.pdf

video of the guest lecture

Session: Afternoon #2

Convener: Catalina Oana Curceanu (LNF)

27 Consciousness and the collapse of the wave function

Speaker: Kelvin McQueen

video of the talk

28 Closing of the workshop

Speaker: Catalina Curceanu