Information-Theoretic Gaps in Solar and Reactor Neutrino Oscillation Measurements

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2602.07991v1
• Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2026 14:31:02 GMT
• Title: Information-Theoretic Gaps in Solar and Reactor Neutrino Oscillation Measurements
• Authors: Neetu Raj Singh Chundawat, Yu-Feng Li,
• Abstract summary: Two solar oscillation parameters, $m2_21$ and $_12$, can be estimated using both solar neutrino experiments and reactor neutrino experiments.<n>In reactor experiments, neutrinos are detected after coherent vacuum evolution, while solar neutrinos arrive at the detector as incoherent mixtures.<n>We find that for reactor neutrinos, flavor measurements saturate the QFI bound for both parameters over specific energy ranges.<n>In contrast, for solar neutrinos the phase-based contribution to the QFI, originating from the quantum coherence, is absent.
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• Abstract: Quantum estimation theory provides a fundamental framework for analyzing how precisely physical parameters can be estimated from measurements. Neutrino oscillations are characterized by a set of parameters inferred from experiments conducted in different production and detection environments. The two solar oscillation parameters, $Δm^2_{21}$ and $θ_{12}$, can be estimated using both solar neutrino experiments and reactor neutrino experiments. In reactor experiments, neutrinos are detected after coherent vacuum evolution, while solar neutrinos arrive at the detector as incoherent mixtures. In this work, we use Quantum Fisher Information (QFI) to quantify and compare the information content accessible in these two experimental setups. We find that for reactor neutrinos, flavor measurements saturate the QFI bound for both parameters over specific energy ranges, demonstrating their optimality and explaining the high precision achieved by these experiments. In contrast, for solar neutrinos the phase-based contribution to the QFI, originating from the quantum coherence, is absent, rendering the estimation of $Δm_{21}^2$ purely population-based and effectively classical, while the QFI for $θ_{12}$ is dominated by basis rotation at high energies and is nearly saturated by flavor measurements. Consequently, solar neutrino experiments are intrinsically more sensitive to $θ_{12}$ than to $Δm_{21}^2$. This analysis highlights a fundamental distinction between the two estimation problems and accounts for their differing achievable precisions.

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