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Main Authors: Dey, Suroj, Barker, Peter, Datta, Animesh
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.21705
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author Dey, Suroj
Barker, Peter
Datta, Animesh
author_facet Dey, Suroj
Barker, Peter
Datta, Animesh
contents We show that detecting steady-state Coulomb-mediated reduction in the thermal variance of the differential motional mode of two nanospheres can bound the Continuous Spontaneous Localization (CSL) parameter ($λ_{\text{CSL}}$). For realistic experimental parameters, the resulting bounds are comparable to those obtained from X-ray emission experiments and surpass those set by bulk-heating ones. Unlike these latter experiments, our bounds are robust against plausible coloured-noise extensions of collapse models. In the short-time regime, we find that a weak Coulomb-induced entanglement-based test between two charged nanospheres initialized in ground state can provide constraints on $λ_{\text{CSL}}$ comparable to limits set by early X-ray experiments.
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spellingShingle Testing Spontaneous Collapse Models with Coulomb Mediated Squeezing
Dey, Suroj
Barker, Peter
Datta, Animesh
Quantum Physics
We show that detecting steady-state Coulomb-mediated reduction in the thermal variance of the differential motional mode of two nanospheres can bound the Continuous Spontaneous Localization (CSL) parameter ($λ_{\text{CSL}}$). For realistic experimental parameters, the resulting bounds are comparable to those obtained from X-ray emission experiments and surpass those set by bulk-heating ones. Unlike these latter experiments, our bounds are robust against plausible coloured-noise extensions of collapse models. In the short-time regime, we find that a weak Coulomb-induced entanglement-based test between two charged nanospheres initialized in ground state can provide constraints on $λ_{\text{CSL}}$ comparable to limits set by early X-ray experiments.
title Testing Spontaneous Collapse Models with Coulomb Mediated Squeezing
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.21705