Gravitationally induced inhibitions of dispersion according to the Schrodinger-Newton equation

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Giulini, Domenico [1 ,2 ]
Grossardt, Andre [1 ,2 ]
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[1] Univ Bremen, Ctr Appl Space Technol & Micrograv, D-28359 Bremen, Germany
[2] Leibniz Univ Hannover, Inst Theoret Phys, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
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10.1088/0264-9381/28/19/195026
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P1 [天文学];
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We reconsider the time-dependent Schrodinger-Newton equation as a model for the self-gravitational interaction of a quantum system. We numerically locate the onset of gravitationally induced inhibitions of dispersion of Gaussian wave packets and find them to occur at mass values more than six orders of magnitude higher than reported by Salzman and Carlip ( Salzman and Carlip 2006, arXiv:gr-qc/0606120, Carlip 2008 Class. Quantum Grav. 25 107-44), namely at about 10(10) u. This fits much better to simple analytical estimates but unfortunately also questions the experimental realizability of the proposed laboratory test of quantum gravity in the foreseeable future, not just because of largemasses, but also because of the need to provide sufficiently long coherence times.
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