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Gravitational Effects on Quantum Coherence in Neutrino Oscillation

Quantum Physics 2022-06-01 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the quantum coherence for two flavor neutrinos propagating in a Schwarzschild metric. In fact, this issue is explored both qualitatively via calculating the parameter K3K_{3} in Leggett-Garg inequality (LGI) and also quantitatively by evaluating the l1l_{1}-norm, C(ρ){\cal C}(\rho). Using the weak field approximations, we show that the gravitational effects decrease the maximum value of K3K_{3} for some intervals of energy such a way that there is no violation, while it leaves the maximum amount of the quantum coherence, C(ρ){\cal C}(\rho) unchanged.

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@article{arxiv.2204.12314,
  title  = {Gravitational Effects on Quantum Coherence in Neutrino Oscillation},
  author = {M. M. Ettefaghi and R. Ramezani Arani and Z. S. Tabatabaei Lotfi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.12314},
  year   = {2022}
}

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21 pages, 2 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. D