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Quantum Entanglement Theory and Its Generic Searches in High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2025-05-30 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We propose a new formalism for quantum entanglement (QE), and study its generic searches at the colliders. For a general quantum system with NN particles, we show that the quantum space (the total spin polarization parameter space) is complex projective space, and the classical space (the spin polarization parameter space for classical theory) is the cartesian product of the complex projective spaces. Thus, the quantum entanglement space is the difference of these two spaces. For the ffff, AAAA, AfAf, ffffff, and ffAffA systems, we propose their discriminants Δi\Delta_i. The corresponding classical spaces are the discriminant locus Δ=0\Delta=0 for ffff system, and intersections of the discriminant loci Δi=0\Delta_i=0 for AAAA, AfAf, ffffff, and ffAffA systems in the quantum space. In particular, for two fermion ffff system, we prove that our discriminant criterion is equivalent to the original Peres-Horodecki criterion and the CHSH criterion. And thus our quantum entanglement space is indeed Bell non-local. With the collider searches, we can reconstruct the discriminants from various measurements, and probe the quantum entanglement spaces via a fundamental approach at exact level. In addition, for the specific approach, we present a comprehensive framework to detect quantum entanglement in high-energy multi-particle systems, spanning fermion pairs (ttˉt\bar{t}, τ+τ\tau^{+}\tau^{-}), bosonic pairs (WW+W^{-}W^{+}), and hybrid or three-body systems (WtW^{-}t, tttttt, ttˉWt\bar{t}W^{-}), by diverse observables through angular correlations in decay products. These results establish model-independent methodologies for probing QE across collider experiments, bridging quantum information principles with high-energy phenomenology, while offering novel pathways to explore exotic particles and quantum properties in multi-particle systems.

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@article{arxiv.2505.09280,
  title  = {Quantum Entanglement Theory and Its Generic Searches in High Energy Physics},
  author = {Junle Pei and Yaquan Fang and Lina Wu and Da Xu and Mustapha Biyabi and Tianjun Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.09280},
  year   = {2025}
}

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42 pages, 6 figures