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The entanglement properties of systems in which elastic and inelastic reactions occur in projectile-target interactions is studied. A new measure of entanglement, the scattering entropy, based on the unitarity of the $S-$matrix (probability…

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This paper explores the connections between particle scattering and quantum information theory in the context of the non-relativistic, elastic scattering of two spin-1/2 particles. An untangled, pure, two-particle in-state is evolved by an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 N. L. Harshman

Scattering processes in high-energy physics are inherently quantum mechanical, yet are typically analyzed at the level of final states, where entanglement appears as a property of the outcome rather than a consequence of the underlying…

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Particle systems admit a variety of tensor product structures (TPSs) depending on the algebra of observables chosen for analysis. Global symmetry transformations and dynamical transformations may be resolved into local unitary operators…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 N. L. Harshman , S. Wickramasekara

We study the entanglement produced in transverse momentum by two-particle scattering at high energy. Employing the S-matrix framework for the derivation of reduced density matrices, we formulate the entanglement entropy for an inelastic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-02 Robi Peschanski , Shigenori Seki

We study how the successive scattering of spin 1/2 particles with a central spin 1/2 target particle can generate entanglement between the helicity degrees of freedom of all scattered particles, effectively producing a multipartite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-21 Gonçalo M. Quinta , Rui André

Entanglement of the two scattered particles is expected to occur in elastic collisions, even at high energy where they are in competition with inelastic ones. We study how to evaluate quantitatively the corresponding entanglement entropy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-07 Robi Peschanski , Shigenori Seki

Recent studies have shown a potential correlation between the entanglement of initial state partons in elementary particle collisions, as conceptualized by contemporary quantum and particle theory, and the final state multiplicity…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-22 Alek Hutson , Rene Bellwied

We consider a one-parameter family of matrix product states of spin one particles on a periodic chain and study in detail the entanglement properties of such a state. In particular we calculate exactly the entanglement of one site with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Alipour , V. Karimipour , L. Memarzadeh

Unitarity and the optical theorem are used to derive the reduced density matrices of Compton scattering in the presence of a witness particle. Two photons are initially entangled wherein one photon participates in Compton scattering while…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-05 Shanmuka Shivashankara

We study the properties of entanglement entropy among scattering particles as observed from different inertial moving frames, based on an exemplary QED process $e^+e^-\rightarrow\mu^+\mu^-$. By the explicit calculation of the Wigner…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-31 Jinbo Fan , Xinfei Li

Perturbation theory is used to investigate the evolution of the von Neumann entropy of a subsystem of a bipartite quantum system under the action of a unitary matrix, in the limit where that matrix is close to the unit matrix. The physical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-08 Duncan MacIntyre , Gordon W. Semenoff

A scheme for generating an entangled state in a two spin-1/2 system by means of a spin-dependent potential scattering of another qubit is presented and analyzed in three dimensions. The entanglement is evaluated in terms of the concurrence…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-04-07 Yuichiro Hida , Hiromichi Nakazato , Kazuya Yuasa , Yasser Omar

Motivated by recent discussions of entanglement in the context of high energy scattering, we consider the relation between the entanglement entropy of a highly excited state of a quantum system and the classical entanglement entropy of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-18 Haowu Duan , Alex Kovner , Vladimir V. Skokov

In the present paper an example of entanglement between two different kinds of interacting particles, photons and electrons is analysed. The initial-value problem of the Schroedinger equation is solved non-perturbatively for the system of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-10-05 Sandor Varro

When a subset of particles in an entangled state is measured, the state of the subset of unmeasured particles is determined by the outcome of the measurement. This first measurement may be thought of as a state preparation for the remaining…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Morton H. Rubin

This communication is an enquiry into the circumstances under which entropy and subentropy methods can give an answer to the question of quantum entanglement in the composite state. Using a general quantum dynamical system we obtain the…

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We analyse the entanglement generation in a one dimensional scattering process. The two colliding particles have a Gaussian wave function and interact by hard--core repulsion.In our analysis results on the entanglement of two mode Gaussian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Frank Schmüser , Dominik Janzing

The scattering cross section is the effective area of collision when two particles collide. Quantum mechanically, it is a measure of the probability for a specific process to take place. Employing wave packets to describe the scattering…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-15 Ian Low , Zhewei Yin