The Endeavor for the Theory Beyond Standard Quantum Mechanics: FQT2015LNF-INFN

1. Is quantum theory exact? The endeavor for the theory beyond standard quantum mechanics Second Edition FQT2015LNF-INFN, 23-25 September 2015and Kick-off meeting for the FQXi project: Events as we see them: experimental test of the collapse models as a solution of the Catalina Curceanu LNF-INFN On behalf of the VIP Collaboration

2. Organized by: Local Organizer: Angelo Bassi, Univ. and INFN Trieste Catalina Curceanu, LNF-INFN, Frascati (Roma) Sandr Donadi, Univ. and INFN Trieste Kristian Piscicchia, Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche Enrico Fermi Roma, and LNF-INFN Frascati (Roma) Giancarlo Righini, Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche Enrico Fermi, Roma Secretary: Donatella Pierluigi, LNF-INFN Frascati (Roma)

3. There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds, and in this alone can man find thorough satisfaction.

4. There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds, and in this alone can man find thorough satisfaction. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In James Wood, Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources (1893),

7. "Events" as we see them: experimental test of the collapse models as a solution of the measurement-problem. One of the main pillars of our understanding of Nature and the Universe is the Quantum Theory (QT), which, in spite of its tantalizing success, generates many debates, rooted in its puzzles, which trigger efforts towards a deeper understanding of the underlying mechanisms. What we know about the world is based on the “events” we measure. But the measurement process is hiding one of the deepest mysteries of QT: the “measurement problem”. A system evolves, according to the QT, as being in a linear superposition of all the allowed states, but, when a measurement takes place, only one state emerges as the unambiguous “event”. How (even whether) the wave function collapses? This phenomenon harbors the secrets of the “Physics of What Happens”, with implications in cosmology, philosophy, and in understanding brain and consciousness. We shall perform the first dedicated experiment in the Gran Sasso (Italy) low-background underground laboratory, to investigate an elegant solution proposed to solve the “measurement problem”: the Dynamical Reduction Models. We will achieve a far deeper understanding of the “measurement problem”, intimately connected to the Physics of What Happens, and we might even glance to the theory beyond the actual QT, in the quest for unveiling reality.

8. 23 September: Chair: Pawel Moskal l11:00 – 11:30 Angelo Bassi: Wave function collaspe and gravity 11:30 – 12:00 Stefano Bellucci: Electromagnetic characterization of graphene and graphene nanoribbons via ab-initio permittivity simulations 12:00 – 12:30 Ugur Sezer: Quantum Interference with bionanomatter 12:30 – 14:30 Lunch Chair: Kristian Piscicchia 14:30 – 15:00 Beatrix Hiesmayr: Testing Beyond Standard Quantum Theory at Collider Energies 15:00 – 15:30 Oreste Nicrosini: Does reduction of a particle wave function take a time? 15:30 – 16:00 Bassano Vacchini: Memory effects in quantum dynamics: from applications to foundations 16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break 16:30 – 17:00 Andrea Vinante: Testing collapse models with ultracold mechanical resonators

9. 24 September: Chair: Bassano Vacchini 9:30 – 10:00 Antonio Di Domenico: Probing CPT symmetry with entangled neutral K mesons 10:00 – 10:30 Simone Dell’Agnello: Earth-Moon Lagrangian points as a testbed for general relativity and effective quantum field theories of gravity: an experimental point of view 10:30 – 11:00 Pawel Moskal: Potential of the J-PET technology for tests of discrete symmetries and quantum mechanics 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break and group picture 11:30 – 12:00 Konstantin Lukin: QM motion of classical particle and probable link to GWR theory 12:00 – 12:30 Catalina Curceanu: On the Pauli Exclusion Principle search with VIP: some thoughts about data analyses 12:30 – 13:00 Kristian Piscicchia: On how to treat the X-ray spontaneous emission to get the lambda-value for collapse models  13:00 – 14:30 Lunch Break Chair: Angelo Bassi 14:30 – 15:00 Mauro D’Ariano: A relativity principle without space-time for the Quantum Automata Field Theory 15:00 – 15:30 Marco Erba: Virtually abelian quantum walks and their symmetries 15:30 – 16:00 Marko Toros: Matter-wave experiments and collapse models  16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break 16:30 – 17:00 Sandro Donadi: Recent developments in Collapse Models: dissipative and non-white noise Collapse Models 8 pm: Social Dinner at the “Zaraza’” restaurant in Frascati

10. 25 September 2015 Chair: Beatrix Hiesmayr 9:30 – 10:00 Alessio Avella:Measuring incompatible observables by mean of sequential weak values evaluation 10:00 – 10:30 Fabio Sciarrino: Quantum simulation with Integrated photonics  10:30 – 11:00 Giacomo Guarnieri: Single-photon observables and preparation uncertainty relations 11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break 11:30 – 12:00 Matteo Carlesso: Quantum Brownian Motion Reconsidered 12:00 – 12:30 Michele Arzano: Is purity eternal at the Planck scale?" 12:30 – 13:00 Closure, conclusions

11. The investigation of the truth is in one way hard, in another easy. An indication of this is found in the fact that no one is able to attain the truth adequately, while, on the other hand, no one fails entirely, but every one says something true about the nature of things, and while individually they contribute little or nothing to the truth, by the union of all a considerable amount is amassed. Therefore, since the truth seems to be like the proverbial door, which no one can fail to hit, in this way it is easy, but the fact that we can have a whole truth and not the particular part we aim at shows the difficulty of it. Perhaps, as difficulties are of two kinds, the cause of the present difficulty is not in the facts but in us.

12. The investigation of the truth is in one way hard, in another easy. An indication of this is found in the fact that no one is able to attain the truth adequately, while, on the other hand, no one fails entirely, but every one says something true about the nature of things, and while individually they contribute little or nothing to the truth, by the union of all a considerable amount is amassed. Therefore, since the truth seems to be like the proverbial door, which no one can fail to hit, in this way it is easy, but the fact that we can have a whole truth and not the particular part we aim at shows the difficulty of it. Perhaps, as difficulties are of two kinds, the cause of the present difficulty is not in the facts but in us. — Aristotle Metaphysics, 993a, 30-993b, 9. In Jonathan Barnes (ed.), The Complete Works of Aristotle (1984), Vol. 2,