Gravity Induced Wave Function Collapse

Gravity Induced Wave Function Collapse Starting from an idea of S.L. Adler [1], we develop a novel model of gravity-induced spontaneous wave-function collapse. The collapse is driven by complex stochastic fluctuations of the spacetime metric. After having derived the fundamental equations, we prove the collapse and amplification mechanism, the two most important features of a consistent collapse model. Under reasonable simplifying assumptions, we constrain the strength ξ of the complex metric fluctuations with available experimental data. We show that ξ ≥ 10−26 in order for the model to guarantee classicality of macro-objects, and at the same time ξ ≤ 10−20 in order not to contradict experimental evidence. As a comparison, in the recent discovery of gravitational waves in the frequency range 35 to 250 Hz, the (real) metric fluctuations reached a peak ξ ∼ 10−21 .