Thermodynamic Embedding of the Temperature Increment of a Collapsing Oscillator

Abstract

This paper examines the thermal behavior of the spontaneous wave-function collapse model heating in quantum harmonic oscillators. A peculiar result of the theory is that the obtained temperature increase is proportional to the square of the oscillator frequency. In the present work, we compare this temperature increment – during the dissipation of an oscillator – with a package of thermal excitation in the quantized thermal propagation. It seems that a thermodynamically consistent physical embedding of the collapsing propagation can be recognized.