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For cosmic neutrinos we study the conditions and the effects of the coherence loss as well as coherent broadening of the spectrum. We evaluate the width of the neutrino wavepacket produced by charged particles under various circumstances:…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Yasaman Farzan , Alexei Yu Smirnov

We study in detail the effect of quantum decoherence in neutrino oscillations. We adopt a phenomenological approach that allows us to parametrize the energy dependence of the decoherence effects resulting from the modification of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-11 Bikash Kumar Acharya , Indra Kumar Banerjee , Ujjal Kumar Dey

Quantum decoherence, the evolution of pure states into mixed states, may be a feature of quantum gravity. In this paper, we show how these effects can be modelled for atmospheric neutrinos and illustrate how the standard oscillation picture…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Dean Morgan , Elizabeth Winstanley , Jurgen Brunner , Lee F. Thompson

Subtle problems in the theory of neutrino oscillations in vacuum are discussed. It is shown that Lorentz invariance implies that in general flavor neutrinos in oscillation experiments are superpositions of massive neutrinos with different…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Giunti

We present a generic structure (the layer structure) for decoherence effects in neutrino oscillations, which includes decoherence from quantum mechanical and classical uncertainties. The calculation is done by combining the concept of open…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-24 Ting Cheng , Manfred Lindner , Werner Rodejohann

Neutrino oscillations change when in media in comparison to vacuum oscillations due to the scattering of neutrinos on matter constituents, electrons particularly. This can be easily described by introducing new effective matter mixing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-10-02 Tomas Nosek

Coherence is a familiar concept in physics: It is the driving force behind wavelike phenomena such as the diffraction of light. Moreover, wave-particle duality implies that all quantum objects can exhibit coherence, and this quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Brendon W. Lovett , Ahsan Nazir

Quantum decoherence refers to the phenomenon when the interaction of a quantum system with its environment results in the degradation of quantum coherence. Decoherence is considered to be the most popular mechanism responsible for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Mohd Shoaib Qureshi , Tabish Qureshi

We study the parametric resonance of the neutrino oscillation through the matter whose density varies spatially. The Fourier analysis of the matter effect enables us to clarify the parametric resonance condition, which is summarized in a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-10-20 Joe Sato , Masafumi Koike , Toshihiko Ota , Masako Saito

We establish the most stringent experimental constraints coming from recent terrestrial neutrino experiments on quantum mechanical decoherence effects in neutrino systems. Taking a completely phenomenological approach, we probe vacuum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-17 A. M. Gago , E. M. Moura , W. J. C. Teves , R. Zukanovich Funchal

Quantum gravity models predict a minimal measurable length which gives rise to a modification in the uncertainty principle. One of the simplest manifestations of these generalised uncertainty principles is the linear quadratic generalised…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-23 Indra Kumar Banerjee , Ujjal Kumar Dey

Decoherence has the potential to explain all existing neutrino data including LSND results, without enlarging the neutrino sector. This particular form of CPT violation can preserve the equality of masses and mixing angles between particle…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Gabriela Barenboim , Nick Mavromatos

Quantum decoherence can arise due to classical fluctuations in the parameters which define the dynamics of the system. In this case decoherence, and complementary noise, is manifest when data from repeated measurement trials are combined.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-09-13 G. J. Milburn

We explain the physics of neutrino oscillation in vacuum and in matter. We attempt to clarify several features of oscillation that can be puzzling when neutrinos are their own antiparticles.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-29 Boris Kayser

We consider a novel quantum field-theoretical approach to the description of processes passing at finite space-time intervals based on the Feynman diagram technique in the coordinate representation. The most known processes of this type are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-28 Vadim O. Egorov , Igor P. Volobuev

Quantum coherence can significantly increase the strength of the forward scattering of neutrinos propagating through the Earth and interacting with matter. The index of refraction of the neutrinos propagating in a medium and hence their…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-30 Ram Brustein , Dmitri Semikoz

In arXiv:2410.21850, I proved that the quantum coherence between the mass eigenstates of a neutrino will be destroyed if they are correlated with different momenta. In arXiv:2411.01190, James M. Cline claimed that I had made the unrealistic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-20 Shi-Biao Zheng

Quantum decoherence has been studied using nuclear magnetic resonance(NMR). By choosing one qubit to simulate environment, we examine the decoherence behavior of two quantum systems: a one qubit system and a two qubit system. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jingfu Zhang , Zhiheng Lu , Lu Shan , Zhiwei Deng

We revisit neutrino oscillations in matter considering the open quantum system framework which allows to introduce possible decoherence effects generated by New Physics in a phenomenological manner. We assume that the decoherence parameters…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-15 Pilar Coloma , Jacobo Lopez-Pavon , Ivan Martinez-Soler , Hiroshi Nunokawa

The quantum field theoretical description of coherence in the oscillations of particles, especially neutrinos, is a standing problem in particle physics. In this talk, several inconsistencies of the standard approach to particle…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-01 Anca Tureanu