The Maximal Entanglement Limit in Statistical and High Energy Physics

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2601.00405v1
• Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2026 17:37:29 GMT
• Title: The Maximal Entanglement Limit in Statistical and High Energy Physics
• Abstract summary: Quantum entanglement provides a unifying foundation for both statistical physics and high-energy interactions.<n>I argue that, at sufficiently long times or high energies, most quantum systems approach a Maximal Entanglement Limit (MEL) in which phases of quantum states become unobservable.
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• Abstract: These lectures advocate the idea that quantum entanglement provides a unifying foundation for both statistical physics and high-energy interactions. I argue that, at sufficiently long times or high energies, most quantum systems approach a Maximal Entanglement Limit (MEL) in which phases of quantum states become unobservable, reduced density matrices acquire a thermal form, and probabilistic descriptions emerge without invoking ergodicity or classical randomness. Within this framework, the emergence of probabilistic parton model, thermalization in the break-up of confining strings and in high-energy collisions, and the universal small $x$ behavior of structure functions arise as direct consequences of entanglement and geometry of high-dimensional Hilbert space.

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