Maximal Entanglement in High Energy Physics

Abstract

We analyze how maximal entanglement is generated at the fundamental level in QED by studying correlations between helicity states in tree-level scattering processes at high energy. We demonstrate that two mechanisms for the generation of maximal entanglement are at work, i) s-channel processes where the virtual photon carries equal overlaps of the helicities of the final state particles, and ii) the indistinguishable superposition between t- and u-channels. We then study whether requiring maximal entanglement constrains the coupling structure of QED and the weak interactions. In the case of photon-electron interactions unconstrained by gauge symmetry, we show how this requirement allows reproducing QED. For Z-mediated weak scattering, the maximal entanglement principle leads to non-trivial predictions for the value of the weak mixing angle θW. Our results are a first step towards understanding the connections between maximal entanglement and the fundamental symmetries of high-energy physics.

Date
Apr 15, 2021
Location
Topical Group on Hadronic Physics (APS April Meeting), Virtual

Based on the reference:

  • “Maximal Entanglement in High Energy Physics”, A. Cervera-Lierta, J. I. Latorre, J. Rojo, and L. Rottoli,
    SciPost Phys. 3, 036 (2017).
Alba Cervera-Lierta
Alba Cervera-Lierta
Senior Researcher

Quantum Computing scientist.