Bassi, Angelo and Dorato, Mauro and Ulbricht, Hendrik
(2023)
Collapse Models: A Theoretical, Experimental and
Philosophical Review.
Entropy, 25.
pp. 1-16.
Abstract
In this paper, we review and connect the three essential conditions needed by the collapse
model to achieve a complete and exact formulation, namely the theoretical, the experimental, and
the ontological ones. These features correspond to the three parts of the paper. In any empirical
science, the first two features are obviously connected but, as is well known, among the different
formulations and interpretations of non-relativistic quantum mechanics, only collapse models, as
the paper well illustrates with a richness of details, have experimental consequences. Finally, we
show that a clarification of the ontological intimations of collapse models is needed for at least three
reasons: (1) to respond to the indispensable task of answering the question ’ What are collapse models
(and in general any physical theory) about?’; (2) to achieve a deeper understanding of their different
formulations; (3) to enlarge the panorama of possible
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