Underground tests of quantum mechanics. Whispers in the cosmic silence?

[摘要] By performing X-rays measurements in the "cosmic silence" of the underground laboratory of Gran Sasso, LNGS-INFN, we test a basic principle of quantum mechanics: the Pauli Exclusion Principle (PEP), for electrons. We present the achieved results of the VIP experiment and the ongoing VIP2 measurement aiming to gain two orders of magnitude improvement in testing PEP. We also use a similar experimental technique to search for radiation (X and gamma) predicted by continuous spontaneous localization models, which aim to solve the "measurement problem".

[发布机构] INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Via E. Fermi 40, Frascati (Roma); I-00044, Italy^1;Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Str. Atomistilor no. 407, Bucharest - Magurele, Romania^2;Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Trieste, INFN- Sezione di Trieste, Via Valerio, 2, Trieste; I-34127, Italy^3;University and INFN Bologna, Via Irnerio 46, Bologna; I-40126, Italy^4;Stefan Meyer Institute for Subatomic Physics, Boltzmanngasse 3, Vienna; A-1090, Austria^5;Institut de Physique UMR CNRS-UR1 6251, Université de Rennes1, Rennes; F-35042, France^6;Institut de Physique, Université de Neuchtel, 1 rue A.-L. Breguet, Neuchtel; CH-2000, Switzerland^7;INFN, Laboratori Nazionali Del Gran Sasso, S.S. 17/bis, Assergi (AQ); I-67010, Italy^8;Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche Enrico Fermi, Roma, Italy; (10) Excellence Cluster Universe, Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany^9

[效力级别] 力学 [学科分类] 力学，机械学

[关键词] Basic principles;Continuous spontaneous localizations;Experimental techniques;Measurement problems;Orders of magnitude;Pauli exclusion principle;Underground laboratory;Underground tests