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Entanglement in few-nucleon scattering events

Nuclear Theory 2023-12-25 v1 Quantum Physics

Abstract

We investigate the spin entanglement in few-nucleon scattering processes involving nucleons and deuterons. For this purpose, we consider the entanglement power introduced by Beane et al. We analyze different entanglement entropies as a basis to define the entanglement power of the strong interaction and calculate the corresponding entanglement powers for proton-neutron, neutron-deuteron, proton-deuteron, and deuteron-deuteron scattering. For the latter two processes, we also take into account the modification from the Coulomb interaction. In contrast to proton-neutron scattering, no universal low-energy features are evident in the spin entanglement in neutron-deuteron, proton-deuteron, and deuteron-deuteron scattering.

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@article{arxiv.2312.14484,
  title  = {Entanglement in few-nucleon scattering events},
  author = {Tanja Kirchner and Wael Elkamhawy and Hans-Werner Hammer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.14484},
  year   = {2023}
}

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16 pages, 4 figures

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