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Entangling macroscopic diamonds at room temperature: Bounds on the continuous-spontaneous-localization parameters

2016; American Physical Society; Volume: 94; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1103/physreva.94.012108

2469-9942

Sebastiano Belli, Riccarda Bonsignori, Giuseppe D'Auria, Lorenzo Fant, Mirco Martini, Simone Peirone, Sandro Donadi, Angelo Bassi,

Mechanical and Optical Resonators

A recent experiment [K. C. Lee et al., Science 334, 1253 (2011)] succeeded in detecting entanglement between two macroscopic specks of diamonds, separated by a macroscopic distance, at room temperature. This impressive result is a further confirmation of the validity of quantum theory in (at least parts of) the mesoscopic and macroscopic domain, and poses a challenge to collapse models, which predict a violation of the quantum superposition principle, which is bigger the larger the system. We analyze the experiment in the light of such models. We will show that the bounds placed by experimental data are weaker than those coming from matter-wave interferometry and noninterferometric tests of collapse models.