Quantum Information as a New Lens for Precision Neutrino Physics
Abstract
We present a quantum-information-theoretic study of three-flavor neutrino oscillations in long-baseline experiments by mapping flavor states to qubit-like representations and quantifying quantum correlations through total concurrence. The local minima of this entanglement measure identify energy regions where the flavor state is closest to separability, enabling cleaner extraction of oscillation parameters. We explain how these local minima offer opportunities for precision measurements and provide insight into the accurate determination of neutrino oscillation parameters. We then propose a strategy to improve parameter extraction by aligning the benchmark oscillation regions of NOνA and T2K with the minimum entanglement achievable in each experiment. This shifts the concurrence minima toward higher-event-count energy regions, leading to tighter constraints and reducing the tension arising from their different energy regimes. For normal ordering, we obtain (0.581+0.0136−0.0150,195+38−32 ∘) in the (sin2θ23,δCP) plane and (0.580+0.0140−0.0153,2.515+0.0344−0.0344×10−3 eV2) in the (sin2θ23,Δm231) plane, yielding improved joint constraints. Using GLoBES simulations together with real data, we assess how local minima of quantum correlations influence leptonic CP-violation sensitivity, θ23 octant-degeneracy resolution, and mass-ordering determination. Our results show that minimizing entanglement can significantly affect these key sensitivities, highlighting quantum information measures as complementary probes of neutrino flavor oscillations and offering new insight into the role of quantum correlations in precision neutrino physics.
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BibTeX
@misc{dixit2026quantum,
title = {{Quantum Information as a New Lens for Precision Neutrino Physics}},
author = {Khushboo Dixit and Ritam Kundu and Papia Panda and Soebur Razzaque and Ramita Sarkar},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2606.31996},
eprint = {2606.31996},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.31996},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Quantum Information as a New Lens for Precision Neutrino Physics
AU - Khushboo Dixit
AU - Ritam Kundu
AU - Papia Panda
AU - Soebur Razzaque
AU - Ramita Sarkar
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/08
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2606.31996
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.31996
AB - We present a quantum-information-theoretic study of three-flavor neutrino oscillations in long-baseline experiments by mapping flavor states to qubit-like representations and quantifying quantum correlations through total concurrence. The local minima of this entanglement measure identify energy regions where the flavor state is closest to separability, enabling cleaner extraction of oscillation parameters. We explain how these local minima offer opportunities for precision measurements and provide insight into the accurate determination of neutrino oscillation parameters. We then propose a strategy to improve parameter extraction by aligning the benchmark oscillation regions of NOνA and T2K with the minimum entanglement achievable in each experiment. This shifts the concurrence minima toward higher-event-count energy regions, leading to tighter constraints and reducing the tension arising from their different energy regimes. For normal ordering, we obtain (0.581^+0.0136_−0.0150,195^+38_−32 ^∘) in the (sin^2θ_23,δ_CP) plane and (0.580^+0.0140_−0.0153,2.515^+0.0344_−0.0344×10^−3 eV^2) in the (sin^2θ_23,Δm^2_31) plane, yielding improved joint constraints. Using GLoBES simulations together with real data, we assess how local minima of quantum correlations influence leptonic CP-violation sensitivity, θ_23 octant-degeneracy resolution, and mass-ordering determination. Our results show that minimizing entanglement can significantly affect these key sensitivities, highlighting quantum information measures as complementary probes of neutrino flavor oscillations and offering new insight into the role of quantum correlations in precision neutrino physics.
ER -