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Our understanding of neutrino flavor conversion in the innermost regions of core-collapse supernovae and neutron star mergers is mostly limited to spherically symmetric configurations that facilitate the numerical solution of the quantum…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-28 Marie Cornelius , Shashank Shalgar , Irene Tamborra

The resource theory of imaginarity studies the operational value of imaginary parts in quantum states, operations, and measurements. Here we introduce and study the distillation and conversion of imaginarity in distributed scenario. This…

It is well known that the neutrino flavor in extreme astrophysical environments changes under the effect of three contributions: the vacuum oscillation, the interaction with the surrounding matter, and the collective oscillations due to…

We apply concepts from the quantum measurement theory to obtain some cosmological neutrino background (C$\nu$B) properties and discuss their relevance in defining theoretical bounds on cosmological neutrino energy density. Describing three…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-03-06 Alex E. Bernardini , Victor A. S. V. Bittencourt

Collective neutrino oscillations are typically studied using the lowest-order quantum kinetic equation, also known as the mean-field approximation. However, some recent quantum many-body simulations suggest that quantum entanglement among…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-30 Anson Kost , Lucas Johns , Huaiyu Duan

Inside dense neutrino gases, such as neutron star mergers or core-collapse supernovae, collective neutrino effects cause the transformation of one neutrino flavour into another. Due to strong neutrino self-interactions in these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-18 Shvetaank Tripathi , Sandeep Joshi , Garima Rajpoot , Prashant Shukla

We show that, in the relativistic limit, the quantum theory of neutrino oscillations can be described through the theory of weak measurements with pre and post-selection. The weak nature of neutrino detection allows simultaneous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-26 Yago P. Porto-Silva , Marcos C. de Oliveira

Entropy changes due to delocalization and decoherence effects should modify the predictions for the cosmological neutrino background (C$\nu$B) temperature when one treats neutrino flavors in the framework of composite quantum systems.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-30 Alex E. Bernardini

We study the mixing of different kind of fields (scalar in 0+1D, scalar in 3+1D, fermion in 3+1D) treating the mixing term as an interaction. To this aim, we employ the usual perturbative series in the interaction picture. We find that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-31 Massimo Blasone , Francesco Giacosa , Luca Smaldone , Giorgio Torrieri

The neutrino oscillations in vacuum are derived in a manifestly coherent scheme. The mechanism is operative in a quantum field theoretical framework, justifying nevertheless a formal analogy with quantum mechanical two- (or more) level…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-09 Anca Tureanu

This paper reviews the similarities in the behavior of unstable particles and oscillating neutrinos using perturbation theory within the interaction picture of quantum field theory. We begin by examining how decaying systems are studied in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-11 M. Blasone , F. Giacosa , L. Smaldone , G. Torrieri

To account for neutrino oscillations, it was postulated that the neutrino has nonvanishing mass and each flavor eigenstate is formed by a quantum superposition of three distinct mass eigenstates, whose probability amplitudes interfere with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-18 Shi-Biao Zheng

Quantum imaginarity and quantum nonlocality capture the essence of quantumness of a physical system from different aspects. We establish a connection between the imaginarity and quantum nonlocality in any two-qubit states. Based on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-07 Zhi-Wei Wei , Shao-Ming Fei

Using the open quantum system approach applied to the neutrino system, we derive three generations neutrino probability formulae considering the oscillation induced by mass plus quantum decoherence contributions. The introduction of these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. M. Gago , E. M. Santos , W. J. C. Teves , R. Zukanovich Funchal

In the work, we derive exact analytic expressions for $(3+N)$-flavor neutrino oscillation probabilities in an arbitrary matter potential in term of matrix elements and eigenvalues of the Hamiltonian. With the analytic expressions, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-12 Chee Sheng Fong

Whether a quantum many-body system can be efficiently simulated hinges not only on its size but also on how quantum resources are organized within it. We characterize the quantum resource landscape of collective neutrino oscillations using…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-25 Michael Hite , Pooja Siwach

The dynamical evolution of neutrino flavor in supernovae can be modeled by an all-to-all spin Hamiltonian with random couplings. Simulating such two-local Hamiltonian dynamics remains a major challenge, as methods with controllable accuracy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-30 Oriel Kiss , Ivano Tavernelli , Francesco Tacchino , Denis Lacroix , Alessandro Roggero

Neutrino propagation in space-time is not constrained to be unitary if very light states - lighter than the active neutrinos - exist into which neutrinos may decay. If this is the case, neutrino flavor-change is governed by a handful of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-02-13 Jeffrey M. Berryman , André de Gouvêa , Daniel Hernández , Roberto L. N. Oliveira

This letter proposes an alternative quantum mechanical picture for the observed phenomena of neutrino oscillations. It is assumed in the following that neutrinos interact via diabatic (or localised) interactions with a new particle field,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-18 M. Bergevin

The violation of the classical bounds imposed by Leggett-Garg inequalities has tested the quantumness of neutrino oscillations (NOs) over a long distance during the propagation. The measure of quantumness in experimentally observed NOs is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-20 Yu-Wen Li , Li-Juan Li , Xue-Ke Song , Dong Wang