The Hitchhiker's Advanced Guide to Quantum Collapse Models and their impact in science, philosophy, technology and biology

Europe/Rome
Bruno Touschek Auditorium (LNF)

Bruno Touschek Auditorium

LNF

Via Enrico Fermi 54 00044 Frascati (Rome)
Catalina Curceanu, Kristian Piscicchia (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare), Lajos Diosi (Wigner Research Center for Physics), Maaneli Derakhshani (Rutgers University in New Brunswick)
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The aim of the workshop is to bring together theoreticians and experimentalists to discuss the present status of the collapse models, which were proposed as a solution of the measurement problem in quantum physics.

We witnessed lot of progress recently in the studies of the collapse models. On the theoretical side new realistic dissipative and non-Markovian collapse models are being developed, in order to provide a glimpse on the physical mechanism driving the collapse. At the same time, experimentalists search for signatures of the proposed models with various and very different physical systems. Searches of anomalous heating, or of spontaneous radiation are performed in atomic, nuclear, and mesoscopic/macroscopic systems from underground laboratories to (planned) space-based experiments, together with interference-based experiments.

The Hitchhiker's Advanced Guide to Quantum Collapse Models workshop is targeted both for experts and, especially, for the young participants. It will bring together the communities working in quantum collapse with the aim to set up a synergetic effort towards progress in the field. Discussions of the impact of the collapse models in philosophy, technology and in biology, in particular the consciousness Orch OR model, will be stimulated.

The workshop is organized with the support of the INFN-LNF, of the Foundational Questions Institute (Grants No. FQXi-RFP-CPW-2008 and FQXi-MGA-2102), of the John Templeton Foundation (Grant 62099) and of Comune di Frascati.

The workshop will be organized if necessary in mixed modality (in presence and online) with a strong preference for an "in presence" participation.

Symposium Chairs:
Catalina Curceanu, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, INFN, Italy
Maaneli Derakhshani, Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
Lajos Diósi, Wigner Research Center for Physics and Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary
Kristian Piscicchia, CREF, Rome, and INFN-LNF, Frascati, Italy



Organizing Committee:
Fabrizio Napolitano, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, INFN, Italy
Alessandro Scordo, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, INFN, Italy
Diana Laura Sirghi, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, INFN, Italy
Alessandra Tamborrino Orsini (secretariat)

 

Program of the workshop

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Participants
  • Alberto Clozza
  • Aleksander Khreptak
  • Alessandro Scordo
  • Alessio Porcelli
  • Angelo Bassi
  • Anirudh Gundhi
  • Antonino Maricano
  • Antonio Di Domenico
  • Anupam Mazumdar
  • Aritro Mukherjee
  • Carlo Guaraldo
  • Catalina Oana Curceanu
  • Charlie Beil
  • Chris Rourk
  • Christoph Simon
  • Damir Bosnar
  • Diana Sirghi
  • Elisabetta Pace
  • Ewa Stepien
  • Fabrizio Napolitano
  • Fabrizio Piacentini
  • Federico Nola
  • Florin Catalin Sirghi
  • Francesco Sgaramella
  • Gabriel Moskal
  • Hendrik Ulbricht
  • Inwook Kim
  • Jack Tuszynski
  • Johann Marton
  • Johann Zmeskal
  • Kamil Dulski
  • Kartik Kakade
  • Kobra Mahdavipour
  • Kristian Piscicchia
  • Kyrylo Simonov
  • Lajos Diösi
  • Luca De Paolis
  • Maaneli Derakhshani
  • Marco Merafina
  • Matheus Lobo
  • Maurizio Benfatto
  • Michael Drewsen
  • Mihail Antoniu Iliescu
  • Morgan Facchin
  • Muxi Liu
  • Oton Vazquez Doce
  • Paula Reichert
  • Paweł Moskal
  • Peter Morgan
  • Ron Folman
  • Sakibul Islam Sazzad
  • Sandro Donadi
  • Simone Manti
  • Stefan Forstner
  • Stuart Hameroff
  • Tamás Geszti
  • Thomas Durt
  • Travis Craddock
  • Zakaria Dahbi
  • Łukasz Kapłon
    • 09:45 13:00
      Session 1
      Convener: Diana Laura Sirghi
      • 09:45
        Registration 30m
      • 10:15
        Welcome 15m
        Speaker: Catalina Oana Curceanu (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
      • 10:30
        Recent experimental tests of the quantum foundations of the Penrose-Hameroff theory 30m
        Speaker: Jack Tuszynski (Politecnico di Torino )
      • 11:00
        Coffee Break 30m
      • 11:30
        Biophotons: general aspects and new experimental data 30m
        Speaker: Maurizio Benfatto (LNF)
      • 12:00
        CSL-tests with sympathetic ground-state-cooled larger molecular ions 30m
        Speaker: Michael Drewsen
      • 12:30
        Spacetime geometry of spin, polarization, and wavefunction collapse 30m
        Speaker: Charlie Beil (University of Graz)
    • 13:00 14:30
      Lunch 1h 30m
    • 14:30 18:00
      Session 2
      Convener: Fabrizio Piacentini (INRIM)
      • 14:30
        Cascade model for calculating the yields of atomic transitions in kaonic atoms 30m
        Speaker: Simone Manti (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
      • 15:00
        Nanomechanical test of quantum linearity 30m
        Speaker: Stefan Forstner (ICFO)
      • 15:30
        High sensitivity analysis on Pauli's Exclusion Principle violation with VIP-2 30m
        Speaker: Alessio Porcelli (Stefan Meyer Institute)
      • 16:00
        Coffee Break 1h
      • 17:00
        Quantum collapse associated with electron tunneling in substantia nigra pars compacta tissue 30m
        Speaker: Chris Rourk (Citizen scientist)
      • 17:30
        Wrap of today 30m
    • 10:00 13:00
      Session 3
      • 10:00
        Quantum discussions: from the theory to the experiment and back! 3h
    • 13:00 15:00
      Lunch 2h
    • 15:00 17:00
      Session 4
      • 15:00
        Discussion and interview from citizens 2h
    • 09:30 13:30
      Session 5
      Convener: Fabrizio Napolitano (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
      • 09:30
        Observability of spontaneous collapse in flavor oscillations and its relation to the CP and CPT symmetries 30m
        Speaker: Kyrylo Simonov
      • 10:00
        First in-vivo imaging of the positronium wave function collapse in the human brain 30m
        Speaker: Pawel Moskal (Jagiellonian University)
      • 10:30
        Novel biomarkers and drug delivery systems for theranostics – extracellular vesicles 30m
        Speaker: Ewa Stepien (Jegiellonian University, Dept. of Medical Physics)
      • 11:00
        Coffee Break 30m
      • 11:30
        3D printed lightweight and modular lithium-ion Uninterruptible Power Booster for research and medical devices 30m
        Speaker: Moskal Gabriel (Jagiellonian University)
      • 12:00
        The decay rate of o-Ps with the J-PET detector 30m
        Speaker: Kamil Dulski (Jagiellonian University)
      • 12:30
        Preparation of tests of CP invariance in lepton sector using ortho- positronium annihilation 30m
        Speaker: Damir Bosnar (Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb)
      • 13:00
        Estimating anomalous weak values via a single photon detection 30m
        Speaker: Fabrizio Piacentini (INRIM)
    • 13:30 15:00
      Lunch 1h 30m
    • 15:00 18:00
      Session 6
      Convener: Alessandro Scordo (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
      • 15:00
        Testing time paradoxes, discrete symmetries and all that in entangled neutral K-mesons 30m
        Speaker: Antonio Di Domenico (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
      • 15:30
        The collapse of a quantum state as a joint probability construction 30m
        Speaker: Peter Morgan (Physics Department, Yale University)
      • 16:00
        Coffee Break 30m
      • 16:30
        A Question for Penrose's OR and Orch-OR 30m
        Speaker: Maaneli Derakhshani (Rutgers University in New Brunswick)
      • 17:00
        Collapse dynamics are diffusive? 30m
        Speaker: Sandro Donadi (TS)
      • 17:30
        A tale of two gravity-related collapse models 30m
        Speaker: Stuart Hameroff (The University of Arizona)
    • 20:00 22:30
      Social Dinner 2h 30m
    • 09:30 13:30
      Session 7
      Convener: Kristian Piscicchia (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
      • 09:30
        mpact of dynamical collapse models on inflationary cosmology 30m
        Speaker: Anirudh Gundhi (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
      • 10:00
        Collapse model make particle jiggle... and emit photons 30m
        Speaker: Angelo Bassi (University of Trieste and INFN)
      • 10:30
        How to teach and think about spontaneous wave function collapse theories: not like before 30m
        Speaker: Lajos Diosi (Wigner Research Center for Physics)
      • 11:00
        Coffee Break 30m
      • 11:30
        Realization of a complete Stern-Gerlach interferometer: Towards a test of the foundations of QM as well as the interface with gravity 30m
        Speaker: Folman Ron (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev )
      • 12:00
        Underground tests of quantum collapse at Gran Sasso 30m
        Speaker: Fabrizio Napolitano (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
      • 12:30
        Witnessing quantum aspects of gravity 30m
        Speaker: Anupam Mazumdar (University of Groningen)
      • 13:00
        Bohmian Mechanics & Primitive Ontology 30m
        Speaker: Paula Reichert (LMU Munich )
    • 13:30 15:00
      Lunch 1h 30m
    • 15:00 18:00
      Session 8
      Convener: Pawel Moskal (Jagiellonian University)
      • 15:00
        Recent advancements in radiation detectors for precision experiments 30m
        Speaker: Alessandro Scordo (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
      • 15:30
        Stochastic Renormalization Group a' la Ricci and Covariant Gravitational Collapse of the Wave Function 30m
        Speaker: Antonino Marciano (Fudan University)
      • 16:00
        Coffee Break 30m
      • 16:30
        Test of Collapse Models with the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR 30m
        Speaker: Inwook Kim (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory )
      • 17:00
        High Sensitivity Tests of of Quantum Gravity Induced Spin Statistics Deformation 30m
        Speaker: Kristian Piscicchia (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
      • 17:30
        Could entanglement play a role in the brain? 30m
        Speaker: Christoph Simon (University of Calgary )
    • 09:30 13:40
      Session 9
      Convener: Oton Vazquez Doce (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
      • 09:30
        A realization of de Broglie's Double Solution program: how self- induced collapse allows us to solve the measurement problem 30m
        Speaker: Thomas Durt (Institut Fresnel-Ecole Centrale de Marseille)
      • 10:00
        Experimental testing wavefunction collapse with mechanical systems 30m
        Speaker: Hendrik Ulbricht (University of Southampton)
      • 10:30
        Bose Einstein Condesates for Gravitational Wave Detection 30m
        Speaker: Mihail Antoniu Iliescu (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
      • 11:00
        Coffee Break 30m
      • 11:30
        Massive candidates for DM halos: new developments 30m
        Speaker: Marco Merafina (University of Rome La Sapienza)
      • 12:00
        The KAMEO experiment: investigating the E2 Nuclear Resonance effect in Kaonic Atoms 30m
        Speaker: Luca De Paolis (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
      • 12:30
        An Introduction to Trace Dynamics 30m
        Speaker: Kakade Kartik (IISER, Pune )
      • 13:00
        Comparative studies of commercial and synthesized plastic scintillators for medical applications 30m
        Speaker: Łukasz Kapłon (Jagiellonian University)
      • 13:30
        Conclusions and Farewell 10m