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Symmetry Breaking as Quantum Gate: Entropy and Weak Mixing Angle

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2026-05-22 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory Quantum Physics

Abstract

We establish a correspondence between two independent entropic probes -- the variation of R\'{e}nyi mutual information (RMI) across the electroweak symmetry breaking (EWSB) transition and the stabilizer R\'enyi entropy (SRE) -- in tree-level 222\to 2 elastic scatterings. After angular averaging, the RMI (helicity basis) and the SRE (fixed beam basis) exhibit identical dependence on sin2θW\sin^2\theta_W within each neutral-current channel. We trace this correspondence to a common physical origin that it's the Yukawa mass insertion acts as a iY-\mathrm{i}Y quantum gate in chirality space. Minimizing entropies across all processes yields sin2θW\sin^2\theta_W values matching purely axial vector-like couplings in ZZ boson exchanged channel.

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@article{arxiv.2605.22070,
  title  = {Symmetry Breaking as Quantum Gate: Entropy and Weak Mixing Angle},
  author = {Qing-Hong Cao and Yandong Liu and Haotian Qi and Hao Zhang and Haoran Zhao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.22070},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

6 pages, 7 figures

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