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Qubit-qubit-qutrit quantum correlations in $H \to f \bar f V$

Quantum Physics 2026-07-28 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We perform an extensive analysis of the quantum correlations carried by the qubit-qubit-qutrit pure state arising in the decay of a massive scalar into a fermion-antifermion pair and a massive gauge boson, HffˉVH \to f \bar f V, specialising to the Higgs boson decay hττ+Zh \to \tau^- \tau^+ Z. Working with the exact tree-level spin state and its systematic expansion around the massless-fermion limit, we obtain analytic control over the entire phase space: the bipartite entanglement measures, the genuine 2232 \otimes 2 \otimes 3 entanglement structure (the Miyake classification), as well as the Bell-inequality violations and the non-stabiliserness (magic) are all mapped and reproduced by compact formulas. The bipartite measures exhibit a monogamy-like trade-off between the fermion pair and the fermion-boson pairs. The state is genuinely 2232 \otimes 2 \otimes 3 entangled over almost the entire phase space, most strongly in the collinear regions. We derive, for the first time, semi-analytical expressions for the tight 4×4×24 \times 4 \times 2 Bell inequalities of the 2232 \otimes 2 \otimes 3 system, generalising the optimisation previously available only for three qubits, and find that the local-hidden-variable bound is violated over the entire phase space, reaching within a few per cent of the quantum bound at the upper endpoint of the di-tau mass spectrum. We further extend the stabiliser R\'enyi entropy and the non-local magic to systems with unequal local dimensions, and show that the near-endpoint state carries almost exactly one bit of non-local magic, which peaks at log22771.95\log_2 \frac{27}{7} \simeq 1.95 in the collinear regions. The differential decay rate concentrates precisely in the most nonclassical region of the phase space.

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@article{arxiv.2607.26122,
  title  = {Qubit-qubit-qutrit quantum correlations in $H \to f \bar f V$},
  author = {Michał Banacki and Misaki Ohta and Abhyoudai S. Shaleena and Paweł Caban and Michał Eckstein and Kazuki Sakurai and Michael Spannowsky and Paweł Horodecki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.26122},
  year   = {2026}
}

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49 pages, 13 figures