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Using non-linear evolution equations of QCD, we compute the von Neumann entropy of the system of partons resolved by deep inelastic scattering at a given Bjorken $x$ and momentum transfer $q^2 = - Q^2$. We interpret the result as the…

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The propagation of colored quarks through strongly interacting systems, and their subsequent evolution into color-singlet hadrons, are phenomena that showcase unique facets of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). Medium-stimulated gluon…

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We investigate the interplay between the thermodynamic (Gibbs) entropy of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) and the quantum entanglement entropy characteristic of confined hadronic states across the quark-hadron phase transition. In the deconfined…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-20 Dmitri E. Kharzeev , Krishna Rajagopal

We perform a first-principles, non-perturbative investigation of quantum entanglement between partonic constituents in a strongly coupled 3+1-dimensional scalar Yukawa theory, using light-front Hamiltonian methods with controlled Fock-space…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-19 Wenyu Zhang , Wenyang Qian , Yiyu Zhou , Yang Li , Qun Wang

We discuss quantum entanglement between fast and slow degrees of freedom, in a two dimensional (2D) large $N_c$ gauge theory with Dirac quarks, quantized on the light front. Using the 't Hooft wave functions, we construct the reduced…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-29 Yizhuang Liu , Maciej A. Nowak , Ismail Zahed

We investigate the quantum entanglement in rapidity space of the soft gluon wave function of a quarkonium, in theories with non-trivial rapidity evolutions. We found that the rapidity evolution drastically changes the behavior of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-11 Yizhuang Liu , Maciej A. Nowak , Ismail Zahed

We review the phenomenon of color coherence in quantum chromodynamics (QCD), its implications for hard and soft processes with nuclei, and its experimental manifestations. The relation of factorization theorems in QCD with color coherence…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 L. Frankfurt , V. Guzey , M. Strikman

We study the unitary time evolution of the entropy of entanglement of a one-dimensional system between the degrees of freedom in an interval of length l and its complement, starting from a pure state which is not an eigenstate of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-02-16 Pasquale Calabrese , John Cardy

The relation between the gluon density in a hadron and entanglement entropy can shed a new light on the high energy scattering behavior of hadrons. Using the holographic light-front QCD framework the growth above the classical geometric…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-15 Hans Gunter Dosch , Guy F. de Teramond , Stanley J. Brodsky

When a hadron is probed at high energy, a nontrivial quantum entanglement entropy inside the hadron emerges due to the lack of complete information about the hadron wave function extracted from this measurement. In the high-energy limit,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-10 Umut Gürsoy , Dmitri E. Kharzeev , Juan F. Pedraza

We review the role of zero-temperature entropy in several closely-related contexts in QCD. The first is entropy associated with disordered condensates, including $< G_{\mu\nu}^2>$. The second is vacuum entropy arising from QCD solitons such…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-03-30 John M. Cornwall

Working in the framework of the Color Glass Condensate effective theory of high energy QCD, we revisit the momentum space entanglement entropy of the soft gluons produced in high energy dilute-dense collisions. We extend the work…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-10-31 Alex Kovner , Michael Lublinsky , Mirko Serino

New predictions regarding the role of color flow in high energy Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) processes have emerged in the last decade. In particular, the role of color flow is now being explored through many different observables; one such…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-06-21 Joseph D. Osborn

Recently, it was discovered that the proton structure at high energies exhibits maximal entanglement. This leads to a simple relation between the proton's parton distributions and the entropy of hadrons produced in high-energy inelastic…

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Entanglement and entropy are key concepts standing at the foundations of quantum and statistical mechanics, respectively. In the last decade the study of quantum quenches revealed that these two concepts are intricately intertwined.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-21 Vincenzo Alba , Pasquale Calabrese

After a brief introduction to the concept of entanglement in quantum systems, I apply these ideas to many-body systems and show that the von Neumann entropy is an effective way of characterising the entanglement between the degrees of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 John Cardy

Entanglement is the key feature of many-body quantum systems, and the development of new tools to probe it in the laboratory is an outstanding challenge. Measuring the entropy of different partitions of a quantum system provides a way to…

The dynamical entropy of dense gluonic states in proton-proton collisions at high energies is studied by using phenomenological models for the unintegrated gluon distribution. The corresponding transverse momentum probability distributions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-25 G. S. Ramos , M. V. T. Machado

We formulate confinement in QCD as an entropic surface phenomenon. Quark and gluon quantum information is localized on a transverse entangling two-sphere of radius $R_{EE}$; at this radius the QCD vacuum -- partitioned by a hadron into…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-19 Kiminad A. Mamo

We investigate the evolution of entanglement in multiple-quantum (MQ) NMR experiments in crystals with pairs of close nuclear spins-1/2. The initial thermodynamic equilibrium state of the system in a strong external magnetic field evolves…

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