Collapse miscellany

Abstract

An introduction to the CSL (Continuous Spontaneous Localization) theory of dynamical wave function collapse is provided, including a derivation of CSL from two postulates, a new result. There follows a review of applications to a free particle, or to a “small” rigid cluster of free particles, in a single wave-packet and in interfering packets: the latter result is new. [Editors note: for a video of the talk given by Prof. Pearle at the Aharonov-80 conference in 2012 at Chapman University, see quantum.chapman.edu/talk-11.]