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We study the interplay of the neutrino quantum decoherence and bipolar collective neutrino oscillations. Using the numerical simulation of the neutrino evolution in a supernova environment we showthe suppression of the bipolar collective…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-01 Konstantin Stankevich , Alexander Studenikin

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

It has been proposed that measurement in quantum mechanics results from spontaneous breaking of a symmetry of the measuring apparatus and could be a unitary process that preserves coherence. Viewed in this manner, it is argued,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-16 Partha Ghose

In certain conditions a macroscopic quantum-mechanical scattering may occur, which may lead to a coherent cross-section on a macroscopic scale in a monocrystal. The conditions are satisfied by neutrinos, but not satisfied by other…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-06 Marian Apostol

We investigated the influence of \(\kappa\) Minkowski-type quantum spacetime on neutrino oscillations, revealing that spacetime fluctuations introduce a unique energy-dependent power law, \(E^{-4}\), in the decoherence effect for relic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-05 Partha Nandi , Tiasha Bhattacharyya

We study the impact of assumptions made about the neutrino mass ordering on cosmological parameter estimation with the purpose of understanding whether in the future it will be possible to infer the specific neutrino mass distribution from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-15 Maria Archidiacono , Steen Hannestad , Julien Lesgourgues

As the lynchpin of all quantum correlations, quantum coherence is fundamental for distinguishing quantum systems from classical ones and is essential for realizing quantum advantages in areas such as computation, communication, and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-14 Ashutosh Kumar Alok , Massimo Blasone , Trambak Jyoti Chall , Neetu Raj Singh Chundawat , Gaetano Lambiase

Determining the absolute masses of neutrinos is of fundamental importance in particle physics, nuclear physics, and astrophysics. We conjecture that intrinsic mass relations exist between leptons and quarks. Using these relations and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-05 Fu-Guang Cao

Neutrinos play a critical role of transporting energy and changing the lepton density within core-collapse supernovae and neutron star mergers. The quantum kinetic equations (QKEs) combine the effects of neutrino-matter interactions treated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-13 Sherwood A. Richers , Gail C. McLaughlin , James P. Kneller , Alexey Vlasenko

We consider an unexplored aspect of the mass equivalence principle in the quantum realm, its connection with atomic stability. We show that if the gravitational mass were different from the inertial one, a Hydrogen atom placed in a constant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Pedro Sancho

We present a formulation of the quantum kinetic equations (QKEs) which govern the evolution of neutrino flavor at high density and temperature. Here, the QKEs are derived from the ground up, using fundamental neutrino interactions and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-06-24 Alexey Vlasenko , George M. Fuller , Vincenzo Cirigliano

In charged current weak interaction processes, neutrinos are produced in an entangled state with the charged lepton. This correlated state is disentangled by the measurement of the charged lepton in a detector at the production site. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-21 Jun Wu , Jimmy A. Hutasoit , Daniel Boyanovsky , Richard Holman

An improved treatment of neutrino oscillations follows when neutrino mass eigenstates and their associated recoiling particle states are entangled. When the neutrino and its recoil partner are treated as a single entangled quantum state the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-02-03 R. G. Hamish Robertson

We investigate the emergence of quantum coherence and quantum correlations in a two-particle system with deformed symmetries arising from the quantum nature of spacetime. We demonstrate that the deformation of energy-momentum composition…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Iarley P. Lobo , Gislaine Varão , Giulia Gubitosi , Moises Rojas , Valdir B. Bezerra

It has been claimed that wave packets must be covariant and also that decohered neutrino oscillations are always revived during measurement. These conjectures are supported by general arguments which are not specific to the electroweak…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-13 Emilio Ciuffoli , Jarah Evslin , Hosam Mohammed , Yao Zhou

We show that by combining high precision measurements of the atmospheric delta m^2 in both the electron and muon neutrino (or anti-neutrino) disappearance channels one can determine the neutrino mass hierarchy. The required precision is a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Hiroshi Nunokawa , Stephen Parke , Renata Zukanovich Funchal

We present an updated analysis of the coherent neutrino-nucleus elastic scattering data of the COHERENT experiment taking into account the new quenching factor published recently in Phys. Rev. D100, 033003 (2019). Through a fit of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-26 M. Cadeddu , F. Dordei , C. Giunti , Y. F. Li , Y. Y. Zhang

Quantum coherence, the physical property underlying fundamental phenomena such as multi-particle interference and entanglement, has emerged as a valuable resource upon which exotic modern technologies are founded. In general, the most…

Recent constrains on the sum of neutrino masses inferred by analyzing cosmological data, show that detecting a non-zero neutrino mass is within reach of forthcoming cosmological surveys, implying a direct determination of the absolute…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-15 Raul Jimenez , Carlos Pena-Garay , Licia Verde

We explore how well reactor antineutrino experiments can constrain or measure the loss of quantum coherence in neutrino oscillations. We assume that decoherence effects are encoded in the size of the neutrino wave-packet, $\sigma$. We find…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-24 André de Gouvêa , Valentina De Romeri , Christoph A. Ternes