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We show that, despite appearances, a theoretical approach to neutrino oscillation in which the neutrino and its interaction partners are entangled yields the standard result for the neutrino oscillation wavelength. We also shed some light…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-05 Boris Kayser , Joachim Kopp , R. G. Hamish Robertson , Petr Vogel

The measurement postulate of quantum theory stands in conflict with the laws of thermodynamics and has evoked debate regarding what actually constitutes a measurement. With the help of modern quantum statistical mechanics, we take the first…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Emanuel Schwarzhans , Felix C. Binder , Marcus Huber , Maximilian P. E. Lock

While quantum mechanics exquisitely describes the behavior of microscopic systems, one ongoing challenge is to explore its applicability to systems of larger size and mass. Unfortunately, quantum states of increasingly macroscopic objects…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-09 F. Lecocq , J. B. Clark , R. W. Simmonds , J. Aumentado , J. D. Teufel

We study neutrino oscillations in space within a realistic model in which both the source and the target are considered to be stationary having Gaussian-form localizations. The model admits an exact analytic solution in field theory which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Ara Ioannisian , Apostolos Pilaftsis

Quantum non-demolition (QND) measurements improve sensitivity by evading measurement back-action. The technique was first proposed to detect mechanical oscillations in gravity wave detectors,and demonstrated in the measurement of optical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-25 R. J. Sewell , M. Napolitano , N. Behbood , G. Colangelo , M. W. Mitchell

Neutrino oscillations have been observed in three sectors : solar ($\nu_e$ disappearance), atmospheric ($\nu_{\mu}$ disappearance), and accelerator ($\bar{\nu_{\mu}} \to \bar{\nu_e}$). The probability for two-neutrino oscillation is a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Ray

We review various field theory approaches to the description of neutrino oscillations in vacuum and external fields. First we discuss a relativistic quantum mechanics based approach which involves the temporal evolution of massive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-17 Maxim Dvornikov

Quantum ensembles form easily accessible architectures for studying various phenomena in quantum physics, quantum information science, and spectroscopy. Here we review some recent protocols for measurements in quantum ensembles by utilizing…

We derive the neutrino oscillation probability in vacuum using scattering theory methods developed earlier in the context of collider physics. It is computed from Feynman diagrams that combine neutrino production and detection processes…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-29 Ilian Dobrev , Kirill Melnikov , Thomas Schwetz

A description of neutrino oscillation phenomena is presented which is based on relativistic quantum mechanics and includes both entangled state and source dependent aspects, unlike both of the conventional approaches which use either equal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-15 T. Goldman

Over the past few decades, experimental tests of Bell-type inequalities have been at the forefront of understanding quantum mechanics and its implications. These strong bounds on specific measurements on a physical system originate from…

One of the reasons for the heated debates around the interpretations of quantum theory is a simple confusion between the notions of formalism versus interpretation. In this note, we make a clear distinction between them and show that there…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 Veronika Baumann , Stefan Wolf

The observation of quantum phenomena in macroscopic mechanical oscillators has been a subject of interest since the inception of quantum mechanics. Prerequisite to this regime are both preparation of the mechanical oscillator at low phonon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 A. Schliesser , O. Arcizet , R. Rivière , T. J. Kippenberg

We give a detailed analysis of the oscillation formula within the context of the wave packet formalism. Particular attention is made to insure flavor eigenstate creation in the physical cases (Delta p not equal 0). This requirement imposes…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 S. De Leo , C. C. Nishi , P. Rotelli

Quantum physics, which describes the strange behavior of light and matter at the smallest scales, is one of the most successful descriptions of reality, yet it is notoriously inaccessible. Here we provide an approachable explanation of…

Accelerator-based neutrino oscillation experiments have the potential to revolutionise our understanding of fundamental physics, offering an opportunity to characterise charge-parity violation in the lepton section, to determine the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-01-24 S. Dolan

A model of quantum measurement is proposed, which aims to describe statistical mechanical aspects of this phenomenon, starting from a purely Hamiltonian formulation. The macroscopic measurement apparatus is modeled as an ideal Bose gas, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 Armen E. Allahverdyan , Roger Balian , Theo M. Nieuwenhuizen

We consider the motion of a quantum particle whose position is measured in random places at random moments in time. We contrast this motion with the motion of a quantum particle in a potential which varies randomly in space and in time,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-07-10 Victor Gurarie

In a recent paper a mathematical model for quantum measurement was presented. The phenomenon of wave particle duality, which is introduced in every beginning course of quantum theory, can be explained using this model. Although it is a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-09-27 Jerome Blackman

In this summary of my talk I will review the following the following three theoretical aspects of the quantum neutrino: current status, why we need precision measurements and neutrino oscillations amplitudes.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-30 Stephen Parke