The spontaneous disentanglement hypothesis

Advisor: Eyal Buks

Contact: eyal@ee.technion.ac.il

Project description:

The problem of quantum measurement is considered as one of the most important open questions in physics. It was recently proposed that this problem can be partially resolved by incorporating a process of spontaneous disentanglement into quantum dynamics. According to this hypothesis, time evolution is governed by a modified master equation having an added nonlinear term that deterministically generates disentanglement. The added nonlinear term may give rise to some dynamical instabilities that are otherwise theoretically excluded. The main goal of the project is to experimentally test predictions derive from the spontaneous disentanglement hypothesis.