Collective neutrino oscillations: Many-body non-forward effects and non-classicality

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.12404v1
• Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:59:12 GMT
• Title: Collective neutrino oscillations: Many-body non-forward effects and non-classicality
• Abstract summary: Neutrino evolution in dense astrophysical environments is typically described either within a quantum kinetic framework, or through simplified many-body calculations.<n>We compare these two approaches in a simple neutrino-gas configuration, with particular emphasis on the role of non-forward scattering processes.<n>Motivated by the natural suitability of quantum computing for many-body calculations, we investigate the non-classicality of neutrino evolution.
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• Abstract: Neutrino evolution in dense astrophysical environments is typically described either within a quantum kinetic framework, which neglects the build-up of multi-body correlations, or through simplified many-body calculations that allow significant entanglement to develop. In this work, we compare these two approaches in a simple neutrino-gas configuration, with particular emphasis on the role of non-forward scattering processes. These effects are incorporated either through a collision term in the kinetic description, or by considering the full neutrino-neutrino many-body Hamiltonian. We highlight differences between the two descriptions in both their characteristic timescales and asymptotic behavior. Motivated by the natural suitability of quantum computing for many-body calculations, we further investigate the non-classicality of neutrino evolution, discussing Trotter error scaling, along with the associated costs of constructing quantum circuits in terms of entangling gates and non-Clifford gates. We find that the resources needed for neutrino many-body evolution are on the low end of typical high-energy physics problems and on the mid to high end with respect to quantum chemistry problems. For the full Hamiltonian, resource requirements increase relative to the truncated version. We emphasize the importance of efficient fermion-to-qubit encodings, which are essential for reducing the substantial computational resources required for such simulations.

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