Workshop on: QUANTUM INFORMATION AND FOUNDATIONS OF QUANTUM MECHANICS

Workshop on: QUANTUM INFORMATION AND FOUNDATIONS OF QUANTUM MECHANICS
Quantum Mechanics: Axiomatics and connections with Computing and Information Theory Is Quantum Theory Exact?
aula dottorato - 21 giugno ore 11.00
	Angelo Bassi, Department of physics Miramare, University of Trieste
>PRESENTATION:Born in Udine (Italy) in 1973. He was awarded the degree in Physics (Summa cum laude) at the University of Trieste in 1998 and the Ph.D. in Physics in 2001. Subsequently he was Post-Doctoral Fellow at the ICTP in Trieste (2002/04) and Marie-Curie Fellow at the Ludwig-Maximillian University in Munich (2004/06). In December 2006 he has become staff member of the Department of Physics of the University of Trieste. His research activity includes the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics and in particular collapse models. He has published more than 30 articles in international Journals. Since 2011, he is Chair of the COST Action "Fundamental Problems in Quantum Physics".
Abstract
	I will start with a brief review of the motivations underlying the research for alternative formulations of quantum mechanics, and for new quantum theories. I will mention some solutions which have been proposed so far. I will focus on one such solution: models of spontaneous wave function collapse. I will describe their general features. I will discuss the lower and upper bounds on their parameters. I will review their status as phenomenological modifications of quantum mechanics, whose predictions can be tested experimentally. Reference article: S.L. Adler and A. Bassi, Science 325, 275 (2009).