Quantifying Imaginarity in Neutrino Systems

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2412.01871v1
• Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2024 14:34:18 GMT
• Title: Quantifying Imaginarity in Neutrino Systems
• Authors: Ashutosh Kumar Alok, Trambak Jyoti Chall, Neetu Raj Singh Chundawat, Yu-Feng Li,
• Abstract summary: We conduct the first analysis of imaginarity quantification in neutrino flavor and spin-flavor oscillations. Our findings reveal that even in the case of two-flavor mixing, these measures of imaginarity are nonzero. We extend our analysis to explore the dynamics of three-flavor neutrino mixing, incorporating the effects of a nonzero CP phase.
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• Abstract: It is a fundamental question why quantum mechanics employs complex numbers rather than solely real numbers. In this letter, we conduct the first analysis of imaginarity quantification in neutrino flavor and spin-flavor oscillations. As quantum systems in coherent superposition, neutrinos are ideal candidates for quantifying imaginarity within the resource theoretic framework, using measures such as the $\ell_1$-norm and the relative entropy of imaginarity. Our findings reveal that even in the case of two-flavor mixing, these measures of imaginarity are nonzero. The measures of imaginarity reach their extreme values when the probabilistic features of quantum theory are fully maximized, i.e., both the transitional and survival probabilities are approximately equal, averaging around $1/2$. We further extend our analysis to explore the dynamics of three-flavor neutrino mixing, incorporating the effects of a nonzero CP phase. Our study reveals that the imaginarity in neutrino systems is not solely attributed to the CP-violating phase. More importantly, it can also arise from the intrinsic quantum dynamics of the neutrino mixing system itself.

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