A quantum-information theoretic analysis of three-flavor neutrino oscillations

Author(s)
Subhashish Banerjee, Ashutosh Kumar Alok, R. Srikanth, Beatrix C. Hiesmayr
Abstract

Correlations exhibited by neutrino oscillations are studied via quantum-information theoretic quantities. We show that the strongest type of entanglement, genuine multipartite entanglement, is persistent in the flavor changing states. We prove the existence of Bell-type nonlocal features, in both its absolute and genuine avatars. Finally, we show that a measure of nonclassicality, dissension, which is a generalization of quantum discord to the tripartite case, is nonzero for almost the entire range of time in the evolution of an initial electron-neutrino. Via these quantum-information theoretic quantities, capturing different aspects of quantum correlations, we elucidate the differences between the flavor types, shedding light on the quantum-information theoretic aspects of the weak force.

Organisation(s)
Particle Physics
External organisation(s)
Indian Institute Of Technology–Jodhpur (IIT–Jodhpur), Poornaprajna Institute of Scientific Research
Journal
European Physical Journal C
Volume
75
No. of pages
9
ISSN
1434-6044
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3717-x
Publication date
10-2015
Peer reviewed
Yes
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
103034 Particle physics
Keywords
ASJC Scopus subject areas
Engineering (miscellaneous), Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)
Portal url
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/a-quantuminformation-theoretic-analysis-of-threeflavor-neutrino-oscillations(33c24e75-43c0-4120-8e1e-48ef55d517ec).html