Quantum Resources and Wigner Symmetry in Nucleon-Nucleon Scattering from Effective Field Theory

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.17148v1
• Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2026 18:00:03 GMT
• Title: Quantum Resources and Wigner Symmetry in Nucleon-Nucleon Scattering from Effective Field Theory
• Abstract summary: We study quantum resources in the spin degrees of freedom, such as entanglement, stabilizer magic, and non-local magic, in low-energy nucleon-nucleon scattering.
• Score: 0.764671395172401
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: We study quantum resources in the spin degrees of freedom, such as entanglement, stabilizer magic, and non-local magic, in low-energy nucleon-nucleon scattering through next-to-leading order in pionless effective field theory. Treating each nucleon spin as a qubit, we calculate the corresponding resource-generating powers of the scattering operator at generic center-of-mass momentum and scattering angle $Θ$. The analysis retains $S$- and $P$-wave channels generated by two-derivative contact interactions. When the microscopic physics exhibits Wigner's $SU(4)$ spin-flavor symmetry, the neutron-proton amplitude becomes proportional to the spin-space identity operator and therefore generates no new resources after scattering, extending an observation previously made for leading-order $S$-wave scattering. The same-nucleon channel remains resource-generating because constraints from identical particles project out part of the Hilbert space. These results show how enhanced symmetries, partial-wave structure, and resource generation are intertwined in low-energy two-body scattering.

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