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There is an accepted approach to calculation of the neutrino flavor density-matrix in the halo of a supernova, in which neutrino amplitudes, not cross-sections, need to be followed carefully in the region above the region of frequent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-08 Raymond F. Sawyer

Liouville equation is a fundamental one in statistical mechanics. It is rooted in ensemble theory. By ensemble theory, the variation of the system's microscopic state is indicated by the moving of the phase point, and the moving trajectory…

General Physics · Physics 2023-03-29 Huai-Yu Wang

Collective neutrino oscillations are typically studied using the lowest-order quantum kinetic equation, also known as the mean-field approximation. However, some recent quantum many-body simulations suggest that quantum entanglement among…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-30 Anson Kost , Lucas Johns , Huaiyu Duan

A flavor-dependent model (FDM) is proposed in this work. The model extends the Standard Model by an extra $U(1)_F$ local gauge group, two scalar doublets, one scalar singlet and two right-handed neutrinos, where the additional $U(1)_F$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-29 Jin-Lei Yang , Hai-Bin Zhang , Tai-Fu Feng

The standard theory of neutrino oscillations is reviewed, highlighting the main assumptions: the definition of the flavor states, the equal-momentum assumption and the time = distance assumption. It is shown that the standard flavor states…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Carlo Giunti

The Liouville equation differs from the von Neumann equation 'only' by a characteristic superoperator. We demonstrate this for Hamiltonian dynamics, in general, and for the Jaynes-Cummings model, in particular. -- Employing superspace…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-04-11 Hans-Thomas Elze , Giovanni Gambarotta , Fabio Vallone

Neutrino flavour transmutations in nonuniform matter are described by a Schr\"{o}dinger-like evolution equation with coordinate-dependent potential. In all the derivations of this equation it is assumed that the potential, which is due to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-17 Evgeny Akhmedov

This work concerns some issues about the interplay of standard and geometric (Hamiltonian) approaches to finite-dimensional quantum mechanics, formulated in the projective space. Our analysis relies upon the notion and the properties of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-12-04 Valter Moretti , Davide Pastorello

We presented a general approach for obtaining the generalized transport equations with fractional derivatives by using the Liouville equation with fractional derivatives for a system of classical particles and Zubarev's nonequilibrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-05-26 P. P. Kostrobij , B. M. Markovych , M. V. Tokarchuk

The evolution of a mixed quantum-classical system is expressed in the mapping formalism where discrete quantum states are mapped onto oscillator states, resulting in a phase space description of the quantum degrees of freedom. By defining…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Aaron Kelly , Ramses van Zon , Jeremy Schofield , Raymond Kapral

The flavor evolution of neutrinos in environments with large neutrino number densities is an open problem at the nexus of astrophysics and neutrino flavor physics. Among the many unanswered questions pertaining to this problem, it remains…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-12-21 Denis Lacroix , A. B. Balantekin , Michael J. Cervia , Amol V. Patwardhan , Pooja Siwach

We describe our recent proposal of a path integral formulation of classical Hamiltonian dynamics. Which leads us here to a new attempt at hybrid dynamics, which concerns the direct coupling of classical and quantum mechanical degrees of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-11 H-T Elze , G Gambarotta , F Vallone

The quantum Liouville equation, which describes the phase space dynamics of a quantum system of fermions, is analyzed from statistical point of view as a particular example of the Kramers-Moyal expansion. Quantum mechanics is extended to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-25 R. Tsekov

The flavor composition of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos can reveal the physics governing their production, propagation, and interaction. The IceCube Collaboration has published the first experimental determination of the ratio of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-21 Mauricio Bustamante , John F. Beacom , Walter Winter

Deterministic dynamical models are discussed which can be described in quantum mechanical terms. In particular, a local quantum field theory is presented which is a supersymmetric classical model. -- The Hilbert space approach of Koopman…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Hans-Thomas Elze

Density matrices are powerful mathematical tools for the description of closed and open quantum systems. Recently, methods for the direct computation of density matrix elements in scalar quantum field theory were developed based on thermo…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-12 Christian Käding , Mario Pitschmann

Neutrino flavor oscillations are discussed in terms of two coupled Dirac fields. The interacting Lagrangian is diagonalized to obtain the exact eigenvalues and eigenfunctions. Flavor wave functions are then derived directly from the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-02-03 Elisabetta Sassaroli

We extend a previously developed description of the flavour parameters in the charged fermion sector, based on a U(2) flavour symmetry, to include two main features of the neutrino sector seemingly implied by recent data: a large mixing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 Riccardo Barbieri , Paolo Creminelli , Andrea Romanino

We explore the non-singlet sector of matrix quantum mechanics dual to $c=1$ Liouville theory. The non-singlets are obtained by adding $N_{f}\times N$ bi-fundamental fields in the gauged matrix quantum mechanics model as well as a one…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-03 Panos Betzios , Olga Papadoulaki

Neutrino oscillation is phenomenon of random transition from a flavor state of neutrino to another, and should obey quantum statistics theory, and constitutes Markoffian process. The process is depicted by method of CTRW (continuous time…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-14 Xiao-Yan Wang , Xiang-Jun Chen