Experimental bounds on linear-friction dissipative collapse models from levitated optomechanics

Abstract

Abstract Collapse models constitute an alternative to quantum mechanics that solve the well-know quantum measurement problem. In this framework, a novel approach to include dissipation in collapse models has been recently proposed, and awaits experimental scrutiny. Our work establishes experimental bounds on the so-constructed linear-friction dissipative Diósi-Penrose (dDP) and Continuous Spontaneous localisation (dCSL) models by exploiting experiments in the field of levitated optomechanics. Our results in the dDP case exclude collapse temperatures below 10−13 K and 6 × 10 − 12 K respectively for values of the localisation length smaller than 10−6 m and 10−8 m. In the dCSL case the entire parameter space is excluded for values of the temperature lower than 6 × 10 − 9 K.