A nanoscale experiment measuring gravity's role in breaking the unitarity of quantum dynamics

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 468, Issue 2137, 2012, Pages 35-56

  Van Wezel, Jasper ^a,c   Oosterkamp, Tjerk H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gravity; Magnetic devices; Micromechanical devices; Quantum foundations

Indexed keywords

CLARIFICATION; DYNAMICS; EXPERIMENTS; GRAVITATION; MAGNETIC DEVICES;

CLASSICAL DYNAMICS; EXPERIMENTAL PARAMETERS; EXPERIMENTAL PROTOCOLS; EXPERIMENTAL SETUP; MICROMECHANICAL DEVICE; NANO SCALE; NANOMECHANICAL DEVICE; QUANTUM DYNAMICS; SPONTANEOUS SYMMETRY BREAKING; UNITARITY;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 84855992614     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2011.0201     Document Type: Conference Paper

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