A quantum-information theoretic analysis of three-flavor neutrino oscillations: Quantum entanglement, nonlocal and nonclassical features of neutrinos

  • Subhashish Banerjee
  • , Ashutosh Kumar Alok
  • , R. Srikanth
  • , Beatrix C. Hiesmayr (Corresponding author)

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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.
Original languageEnglish
Article number487
Number of pages9
JournalEuropean Physical Journal C
Volume75
Issue number10
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 13 Oct 2015

Funding

B. C. gratefully thanks the Austrian Science Fund (FWF-26783). The authors acknowledge Uma Sankar and Gerd Krizek for critically reading the manuscript and commenting on it.

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

  • 103034 Particle physics

Keywords

  • BELL INEQUALITY
  • LOCAL REALISM
  • KAON SYSTEM
  • ENTANGLEMENT
  • NONLOCALITY
  • VIOLATION
  • MECHANICS
  • MESONS

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