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We study neutrino oscillations in external fields using the approach based on the quantum field theory (QFT). Neutrinos are virtual particles in this formalism. Neutrino mass eigenstates are supposed to be Dirac fermions. We consider two…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-09 Maxim Dvornikov

We analyze the simulation of Dirac neutrino oscillations using quantum walks, both in vacuum and in matter. We show that this simulation, in the continuum limit, reproduces a set of coupled Dirac equations that describe neutrino flavor…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-25 Giuseppe Di Molfetta , Armando Pérez

We study in detail the Quantum Field Theory of mixing among three generations of Dirac fermions (neutrinos). We construct the Hilbert space for the flavor fields and determine the generators of the mixing transformations. By use of these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Massimo Blasone , Antonio Capolupo , Giuseppe Vitiello

We analyze the problem of neutrino oscillations via a fermionic particle detector model inspired by the physics of the Fermi theory of weak interactions. The model naturally leads to a description of emission and absorption of neutrinos in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-24 Bruno de S. L. Torres , T. Rick Perche , André G. S. Landulfo , George E. A. Matsas

We find the solution to the Dirac equation for a massive neutrino with a magnetic moment propagating in background matter and interacting with the twisting magnetic field. In frames of the relativistic quantum mechanics approach to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Maxim Dvornikov

We analyze phenomenological aspects of the quantum field theoretical formulation of meson mixing and obtain the exact oscillation formula in the presence of the decay. This formula is different from quantum mechanical formula by additional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 Antonio Capolupo , Chueng-Ryong Ji , Yuriy Mishchenko , Giuseppe Vitiello

Quantum information theory has recently emerged as a flourishing area of research and quantum complexity, one of its powerful measures, is being applied for investigating complex systems in many areas of physics. Its application to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-14 Khushboo Dixit , S. Shajidul Haque , Soebur Razzaque

We develop the approach to the problem of neutrino oscillations in a magnetic field introduced in \cite{Popov:2019nkr} and extend it to the case of three neutrino generations. The theoretical framework suitable for computation of the Dirac…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-15 Alexey Lichkunov , Artem Popov , Alexander Studenikin

Flavor oscillation of traveling neutrinos is treated by solving the one-dimensional Dirac equation for massive fermions. The solutions are given in terms of squeezed coherent state as mutual eigenfunctions of parity operator and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-08-03 Kelin Wang , Zexian Cao

Reporting about the formalism with the Dirac equation we describe the dynamics of chiral oscillations for a fermionic particle non-minimally coupling with an external magnetic field. For massive particles, the chirality and helicity quantum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Alex E. Bernardini , Marcelo M. Guzzo

We show that, in the relativistic limit, the quantum theory of neutrino oscillations can be described through the theory of weak measurements with pre and post-selection. The weak nature of neutrino detection allows simultaneous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-26 Yago P. Porto-Silva , Marcos C. de Oliveira

We present an expression for the transition probability between Dirac or Majorana neutrino flavors obtained from first principles within quantum field theory. Our derivation is based on a standard quantum mechanical setup and includes the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-10-23 Luca Visinelli , Paolo Gondolo

The symmetry of the problem of the apparent deficit in upward-going atmospheric muon neutrinos reveals two possible, nonexclusive kinds of solution: Nonlinearity in distance or nonlinearity in angle of observation. Nonlinearity in distance…

General Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 John Michael Williams

We study neutrino flavor oscillations using the approach based on the quantum field theory (QFT), where neutrinos are taken to be virtual particles. One deals with the propagators of neutrino mass eigenstates in this formalism. Previously,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-10 Maxim Dvornikov

The theory of neutrino flavor rotations is discussed in terms of wave function solutions to the Dirac equation with a neutrino mass matrix. We give a critical review of the nature of neutrino oscillations.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Widom , Y. N. Srivastava

We present a new formulation for deriving neutrino oscillation probabilities relativistically, based not on the Schr\"odinger equation but on the Dirac equation. In the context of two generations, we calculate the oscillation probabilities…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-14 Keiichi Kimura , Akira Takamura

We study the time evolution of the distribution functions for hot and or degenerate gases of two flavors of Dirac neutrinos as a result of flavor mixing and dephasing. This is achieved by obtaining the time evolution of the flavor density…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Boyanovsky , C. M. Ho

We investigate the chiral properties of SU(2) gauge theory with six flavors, i.e. six light Dirac fermions in the fundamental representations by lattice simulation, and point out that the spontaneous breakdown of chiral symmetry does not…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2013-11-27 M. Hayakawa , K. -I. Ishikawa , S. Takeda , M. Tomii , N. Yamada

Quantum criticality within Dirac fermions harbors a plethora of exotic phenomena, attracting sustained attention in the past decades. Here, we explore the imaginary-time relaxation dynamics in a typical Dirac quantum criticality belonging…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-26 Yin-Kai Yu , Zhi Zeng , Yu-Rong Shu , Zi-Xiang Li , Shuai Yin

This letter proposes an alternative quantum mechanical picture for the observed phenomena of neutrino oscillations. It is assumed in the following that neutrinos interact via diabatic (or localised) interactions with a new particle field,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-18 M. Bergevin