Heisenberg's Uncertainty Relation and Bell Inequalities in High Energy Physics: An effective formalism for unstable two-state systems

Antonio Di Domenico, Andreas Gabriel, Beatrix Hiesmayr (Corresponding author), Florian Hipp, Marcus Huber, Gerd Krizek, Karoline Mühlbacher, Sasa Radic, Christoph Spengler, Lukas Theussl

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Abstract

An effective formalism is developed to handle decaying two-state systems. Herewith, observables of such systems can be described by a single operator in the Heisenberg picture. This allows for using the usual framework in quantum information theory and, hence, to enlighten the quantum features of such systems compared to non-decaying systems. We apply it to systems in high energy physics, i.e. to oscillating meson-antimeson systems. In particular, we discuss the entropic Heisenberg uncertainty relation for observables measured at different times at accelerator facilities including the effect of CP violation, i.e. the imbalance of matter and antimatter. An operator-form of Bell inequalities for systems in high energy physics is presented, i.e. a Bell-witness operator, which allows for simple analysis of unstable systems.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)778-802
Number of pages25
JournalFoundations of Physics
Volume42
Issue number6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

  • 103034 Particle physics

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