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The precise measurement of the leptonic CP-violating phase $\delta_{CP}$ remains one of the major open challenges in neutrino physics, as current experiments achieve only very limited accuracy. We address this issue through the lens of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-03 Michela Ignoti , Claudia Frugiuele , Matteo G. A. Paris , Marco G. Genoni

Complex numbers are widely used in both classical and quantum physics, and play an important role in describing quantum systems and their dynamical behavior. In this paper we study several measures of imaginarity of quantum states in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-11 Qiang Chen , Ting Gao , Fengli Yan

Oscillating neutrino beams exhibit quantum coherence over distances of thousands of kilometers. Their unambiguously quantum nature suggests an appealing test system for direct quantum simulation. Such techniques may enable presently…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-13 M. J. Molewski , B. J. P. Jones

The wave packet approach to neutrino oscillations provides an enlightening description of quantum decoherence induced, during propagation, by localization effects. Within this approach, we show that a deeper insight into the dynamical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-18 Massimo Blasone , Fabio Dell'Anno , Silvio De Siena , Fabrizio Illuminati

We explore the utility of qutrits and qubits for simulating the flavor dynamics of dense neutrino systems. The evolution of such systems impacts some important astrophysical processes, such as core-collapse supernovae and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-21 Francesco Turro , Ivan A. Chernyshev , Ramya Bhaskar , Marc Illa

In the simplistic quantum mechanical picture of flavor mixing, conditions on the maximum size and minimum coherence time of the source and detector regions for the observation of interference---as well as the very viability of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Christian Y. Cardall

Neutrino oscillations can be efficiently simulated on a quantum computer using the Pontecorvo-Maki-Nakagawa-Sakata (PMNS) theory in close analogy to the physical processes realized in experiments. We simulate three-flavor neutrino…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-23 Gayatri Singh , Arvind , Kavita Dorai

Wave-particle duality is one of the basic features of quantum mechanics, giving rise to the use of complex numbers in describing states of quantum systems, their dynamics, and interaction. Since the inception of quantum theory, it has been…

Neutrino oscillations are at the forefront of advances in Physics beyond the Standard Model. Increasing accuracy in measurements of the neutrino mixing matrix is an important challenge in current experiments. It depends on parameters that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-09 Edson Nogueira , Gustavo de Souza , Adalberto Varizi , Marcos Sampaio

Measurements of the Pontecorvo-Maki-Nakagawa-Sakata (PMNS) neutrino mixing parameters have entered a precision era, enabling increasingly stringent tests of neutrino oscillations. Within the framework of quantum estimation theory, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-19 Claudia Frugiuele , Marco G. Genoni , Michela Ignoti , Matteo G. A. Paris

From the perspective of resource-theoretic approach, this study explores the quantification of imaginary in quantum physics. We propose a well defined measure of imaginarity, the geometric-like measure of imaginarity. Compared with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-29 Meng-Li Guo , Bo Li , Shao-Ming Fei

Correlations exhibited by neutrino oscillations are studied via quantum information theoretic quantities. We show that the strongest type of entanglement, genuine multipartite entanglement, is persistent in the flavour changing states. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-20 Subhashish Banerjee , Ashutosh Kumar Alok , R. Srikanth , Beatrix C. Hiesmayr

Entropy measures quantify the amount of information and correlation present in a quantum system. In practice, when the quantum state is unknown and only copies thereof are available, one must resort to the estimation of such entropy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-27 Ziv Goldfeld , Dhrumil Patel , Sreejith Sreekumar , Mark M. Wilde

The depth of our theoretical understanding of neutrino flavor mixing should match the importance of this phenomenon as a herald of long-awaited empirical challenges to the standard model of particle physics. After reviewing the familiar,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Christian Y. Cardall

The phenomena of particle mixing and flavor oscillations in elementary particle physics can be addressed by the point of view of quantum information theory, and described in terms of multi-mode entanglement of single-particle states. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-06-05 M. Blasone , F. Dell'Anno , S. De Siena , F. Illuminati

Uncertainties in flavor and mass eigenstates of neutrinos are considered within the majorization approach. Nontrivial bounds reflect the fact that neutrinos cannot be simultaneously in flavor and mass eigenstates. As quantitative measures…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-28 Alexey E. Rastegin , Anzhelika M. Shemet

In astrophysical scenarios with large neutrino density, like supernovae and the early universe, the presence of neutrino-neutrino interactions can give rise to collective flavor oscillations in the out-of-equilibrium collective dynamics of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-08 Benjamin Hall , Alessandro Roggero , Alessandro Baroni , Joseph Carlson

Imaginarity, stemming from the complex structure of quantum mechanics, has recently emerged as a fundamental resource, yet its dynamical generation remains largely unexplored. In this work, we introduce the notion of imaginarity-generating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Akhil Kumar Awasthi , Mrinmoy Samanta , Sudipta Mondal , Ayan Patra , Aditi Sen De

Neutrino gases are expected to form in high density astrophysical environments, and accurately modeling their flavor evolution is critical to understanding such environments. In this work we study a simplified model of such a dense neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-09 Joshua D. Martin , Duff Neill , A. Roggero , Huaiyu Duan , J. Carlson

In this paper, we introduce the framework for quantifying the imaginarity of quantum channels. Besides, an alternative framework is given together to simplify the process of verifying the condition. We present three imaginarity measures of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-25 Xiangyu Chen , Qiang Lei