Spin-spin entanglement in diffractive heavy quark production

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05267v1
• Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2025 17:24:20 GMT
• Title: Spin-spin entanglement in diffractive heavy quark production
• Abstract summary: We show that the Pomeron exchange leaves characteristic imprints on the entanglement pattern between the quark and the antiquark.<n>For the longitudinally polarized virtual photon, the pair always exhibits maximal entanglement and maximal violation of the Bell-CHSH inequality.<n>For the transversely polarized photon, the pair is always entangled and Bell-violating, reaching maximal entanglement and maximal violation simultaneously when the transverse momentum approximately equals the quark mass.
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• Abstract: We calculate the spin density matrix of a heavy quark-antiquark pair ($b\bar{b}$, $c\bar{c}$ or $s\bar{s}$) diffractively produced in Deep Inelastic Scattering and Ultraperipheral Collisions. We show that the Pomeron exchange leaves characteristic imprints on the entanglement pattern between the quark and the antiquark. For the longitudinally polarized virtual photon, the pair always exhibits maximal entanglement and maximal violation of the Bell-CHSH inequality. For the transversely polarized photon, the pair is always entangled and Bell-violating, reaching maximal entanglement and maximal violation simultaneously when the transverse momentum approximately equals the quark mass.

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