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A quantum-information theoretic analysis of three-flavor neutrino oscillations: Quantum entanglement, nonlocal and nonclassical features of neutrinos
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 flavor changing states. We prove the existence of Bell-type nonlocal features, in both it...
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author | Banerjee, Subhashish Alok, Ashutosh Kumar Srikanth, R. Hiesmayr, Beatrix C. |
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description | 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 flavor changing states. We prove the existence of Bell-type nonlocal features, in both its absolute and genuine avatars. Finally, we show that a measure of nonclassicality, dissension, which is a generalization of quantum discord to the tripartite case, is nonzero for almost the entire range of time in the evolution of an initial electron-neutrino. Via these quantum-information theoretic quantities, capturing different aspects of quantum correlations, we elucidate the differences between the flavor types, shedding light on the quantum-information theoretic aspects of the weak force. |
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spelling | pubmed-46045182015-10-19 A quantum-information theoretic analysis of three-flavor neutrino oscillations: Quantum entanglement, nonlocal and nonclassical features of neutrinos Banerjee, Subhashish Alok, Ashutosh Kumar Srikanth, R. Hiesmayr, Beatrix C. Eur Phys J C Part Fields Regular Article - Theoretical Physics 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 flavor changing states. We prove the existence of Bell-type nonlocal features, in both its absolute and genuine avatars. Finally, we show that a measure of nonclassicality, dissension, which is a generalization of quantum discord to the tripartite case, is nonzero for almost the entire range of time in the evolution of an initial electron-neutrino. Via these quantum-information theoretic quantities, capturing different aspects of quantum correlations, we elucidate the differences between the flavor types, shedding light on the quantum-information theoretic aspects of the weak force. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2015-10-13 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC4604518/ /pubmed/26491399 http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3717-x Text en © The Author(s) 2015 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. Funded by SCOAP3 |
spellingShingle | Regular Article - Theoretical Physics Banerjee, Subhashish Alok, Ashutosh Kumar Srikanth, R. Hiesmayr, Beatrix C. A quantum-information theoretic analysis of three-flavor neutrino oscillations: Quantum entanglement, nonlocal and nonclassical features of neutrinos |
title | A quantum-information theoretic analysis of three-flavor neutrino oscillations: Quantum entanglement, nonlocal and nonclassical features of neutrinos |
title_full | A quantum-information theoretic analysis of three-flavor neutrino oscillations: Quantum entanglement, nonlocal and nonclassical features of neutrinos |
title_fullStr | A quantum-information theoretic analysis of three-flavor neutrino oscillations: Quantum entanglement, nonlocal and nonclassical features of neutrinos |
title_full_unstemmed | A quantum-information theoretic analysis of three-flavor neutrino oscillations: Quantum entanglement, nonlocal and nonclassical features of neutrinos |
title_short | A quantum-information theoretic analysis of three-flavor neutrino oscillations: Quantum entanglement, nonlocal and nonclassical features of neutrinos |
title_sort | quantum-information theoretic analysis of three-flavor neutrino oscillations: quantum entanglement, nonlocal and nonclassical features of neutrinos |
topic | Regular Article - Theoretical Physics |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4604518/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26491399 http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3717-x |
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