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Quantum mismatch: a powerful measure of "quantumness" in neutrino oscillations

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2023-04-06 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment Quantum Physics

Abstract

The quantum nature of neutrino oscillations would be reflected in the mismatch between the neutrino survival probabilities with and without an intermediate observation. We propose this ``quantum mismatch'' as a measure of quantumness in neutrino oscillations, which precisely extracts the interference term in the two-flavor limit. In the full three-flavor scenario, we provide modified definitions of the Leggett-Garg and quantum mismatch measures. These are applicable for long-baseline and reactor neutrino experiments that measure neutrino survival probabilities with negligible matter effects.

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@article{arxiv.2304.02475,
  title  = {Quantum mismatch: a powerful measure of "quantumness" in neutrino oscillations},
  author = {Dibya S. Chattopadhyay and Amol Dighe},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.02475},
  year   = {2023}
}

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6 pages, 4 figures