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Residual Entanglement vs. Residual Coherence: A Wave Packet Approach in Neutrino Oscillation with Matter

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Submitted 12 Nov 2026 · 81 references

Pith's verdict: A technically sound extension of residual entanglement and coherence measures to wave-packet neutrino oscillations, but quantitative predictions are hostage to an unconstrained free parameter (sigma_x) without physical motivation.

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CitationAbhishek Kumar Jha, Bhavna Yadav, Lekhashri Konwar. "Residual Entanglement vs. Residual Coherence: A Wave Packet Approach in Neutrino Oscillation with Matter." arXiv:2611.16709 (2026). https://pith.science/paper/TEQERXH6
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The paper derives expressions for residual entanglement and coherence in three-flavor neutrino oscillations using a wave-packet approach in matter and analyzes their behavior for DUNE and extended baselines.

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Neutrinos oscillate between flavors as they travel, and this can be described using quantum mechanics. Usually, physicists treat neutrinos as plane waves, but a more realistic model treats them as wave packets with a finite size. This paper uses that wave-packet model to study quantum correlations like entanglement and coherence in three-flavor neutrino oscillations, including the effect of matter (the Earth's crust) on the DUNE experiment's baseline (1300 km) and beyond. The authors find that the wave-packet width (size) and matter potential significantly affect the oscillation probabilities and the quantum correlations. Smaller wave packets cause stronger damping of oscillations. The residual l1-norm coherence (a measure of quantum superposition) dominates over entanglement measures. At very long distances, all correlations approach constant values, independent of distance and the CP-violating phase. The paper provides formulas connecting these quantum correlation measures to the measurable oscillation probabilities.
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Core claim

The paper claims that genuine tripartite entanglement (measured by Three-pi and Concurrence Fill) and residual l1-norm coherence persist in three-flavor neutrino oscillations when using a wave-packet formalism with constant matter density, and that these measures can be expressed in terms of transition probabilities for an initial muon-flavor state. The central quantitative results are the expressions in Eqs. (40), (41), and (44) and the numerical analysis showing how these measures depend on wave-packet width, matter potential, baseline, and CP phase for DUNE and beyond.

Load-bearing premise

The weakest assumption is the use of a Gaussian wave-packet with a fixed width sigma_x, and the assumption that the momentum distribution is sharply peaked (sigma_p << E^2/m_i). The wave-packet width is treated as a free parameter, and the results depend sensitively on its value. The paper does not provide a physical justification for the chosen values (0.5e-9 m, 7e-9 m, etc.) or connect them to actual production/detection processes in DUNE. The constant matter density approximation is also a simplification, as the Earth's density varies along the baseline.

Original abstract

In this work, we investigate quantum correlations in three-flavor neutrino oscillations beyond the standard plane-wave (PW) description by employing a wave-packet formalism in the presence of constant matter density. We study three quantum correlation measures, namely the residual $l_1$-norm coherence, Concurrence Fill, and Three-$\pi$ entanglement, and express them in terms of transition probabilities for an initial muon-flavor state. The analysis is performed for the DUNE setup and extended beyond its baseline to study the interplay between wave-packet decoherence and matter effects over long distances. For the DUNE baseline, finite wave-packet widths suppress and smooth the oscillations relative to the PW case, with smaller widths causing stronger damping, while matter effects modify the amplitudes and positions of the oscillation features. Among the considered measures, residual $l_1$-norm coherence dominates over the entanglement measures. At very long propagation distances, wave-packet decoherence progressively washes out the oscillatory behavior, driving the oscillation probabilities and quantum correlation measures toward averaged values, with smaller wave-packet widths leading to earlier damping. Further, in the $L-\delta_{\rm CP}$ plane, residual $l_1$-norm coherence exhibits weak $\delta_{\rm CP}$ dependence, while Concurrence Fill and Three-$\pi$ entanglement show greater sensitivity at the DUNE baseline. Beyond a characteristic baseline in the extended propagation regime, all three measures approach constant values, independent of $L$ and $\delta_{\rm CP}$.

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In this work, we investigate quantum correlations in three-flavor neutrino oscillations beyond the standard plane-wave (PW) description by employing a wave-packet formalism in the presence of constant matter density. We study three quantum correlation measures, namely the residual $l_1$-norm coherence, Concurrence Fill, and Three-$\pi$ entanglement, and express them in terms of transition probabilities for an initial muon-flavor state. The analysis is performed for the DUNE setup and extended beyond its baseline to study the interplay between wave-packet decoherence and matter effects over long distances. For the DUNE baseline, finite wave-packet widths suppress and smooth the oscillations relative to the PW case, with smaller widths causing stronger damping, while matter effects modify the amplitudes and positions of the oscillation features. Among the considered measures, residual $l_1$-norm coherence dominates over the entanglement measures. At very long propagation distances, wave-packet decoherence progressively washes out the oscillatory behavior, driving the oscillation probabilities and quantum correlation measures toward averaged values, with smaller wave-packet widths leading to earlier damping. Further, in the $L-\delta_{\rm CP}$ plane, residual $l_1$-norm coherence exhibits weak $\delta_{\rm CP}$ dependence, while Concurrence Fill and Three-$\pi$ entanglement show greater sensitivity at the DUNE baseline. Beyond a characteristic baseline in the extended propagation regime, all three measures approach constant values, independent of $L$ and $\delta_{\rm CP}$.

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s0 In this work, we investigate quantum correlations in three-flavor neutrino oscillations beyond the standard plane-wave (PW) description by employing a wave-packet formalism in the presence of constant matter density. contribution 0.98 0.90 0.05 asserted 0.89
s1 We study three quantum correlation measures, namely the residual $l_1$-norm coherence, Concurrence Fill, and Three-$\pi$ entanglement, and express them in terms of transition probabilities for an initial muon-flavor state. contribution 0.86 0.94 0.05 asserted 0.99
s2 The analysis is performed for the DUNE setup and extended beyond its baseline to study the interplay between wave-packet decoherence and matter effects over long distances. method 0.61 0.91 0.05 asserted 0.96
s3 For the DUNE baseline, finite wave-packet widths suppress and smooth the oscillations relative to the PW case, with smaller widths causing stronger damping, while matter effects modify the amplitudes and positions of the oscillation features. result 1.00 0.93 0.13 asserted 1.00
s4 Among the considered measures, residual $l_1$-norm coherence dominates over the entanglement measures. result 1.00 0.94 0.28 asserted 1.00
s5 At very long propagation distances, wave-packet decoherence progressively washes out the oscillatory behavior, driving the oscillation probabilities and quantum correlation measures toward averaged values, with smaller wave-packet widths leading to earlier damping. result 0.98 0.91 0.21 asserted 1.00
s6 Further, in the $L-\delta_{\rm CP}$ plane, residual $l_1$-norm coherence exhibits weak $\delta_{\rm CP}$ dependence, while Concurrence Fill and Three-$\pi$ entanglement show greater sensitivity at the DUNE baseline. result 1.00 0.93 0.10 asserted 1.00
s7 Beyond a characteristic baseline in the extended propagation regime, all three measures approach constant values, independent of $L$ and $\delta_{\rm CP}$. result 1.00 0.92 0.24 asserted 1.00

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Figure 1. presents the neutrino oscillation (P(νµ → νe) [1(a)] & P(νµ → ντ ) [1(b)]) and survival (P(νµ → νµ))[1(c)] probabilities of the initial state |νµ⟩ as func￾tions of neutrino energy [GeV] for the DUNE baseline (L = 1300 km) within the wave-packet formalism, incor￾porating matter effects. For the DUNE configuration, the matter potential is fixed at V = 1.01 × 10−13 eV,
Figure 2. displays the dependence of the residual quan￾tum correlation measures on the propagation distance L (km) for the DUNE configuration, considering a fixed neutrino energy of E = 2.5 GeV. The analysis considers three residual quantum correlation measures: the resid￾ual entanglement measures, Three-π and Concurrence Fill, along with the residual l1-norm coherence (Rl1-norm). The left panel shown in
Figure 3. FIG. 3: Oscillogram plots of the
Figure 4. shows the neutrino oscillation and survival prob￾abilities with the propagation distance L, considering the range beyond the DUNE baseline and E = 45 GeV [41]. The analysis is performed within the wave-packet for￾malism, taking matter effects into account. In the upper
Figure 5. FIG. 5: For an initial state
Figure 6. FIG. 6: Oscillogram plots of the

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