Quantum entanglement within quarkonium

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.24068v1
• Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2026 07:11:33 GMT
• Title: Quantum entanglement within quarkonium
• Abstract summary: We investigate quark-antiquark entanglement in heavy quarkonium within a nonperturbative light-front Hamiltonian framework.<n>For spin-0 quarkonia, we show that this entropy reduces to the Shannon entropy of the unpolarized transverse momentum dependent parton distribution.<n>For spin-1 quarkonia, we derive the explicit polarization dependence of the entropy and connect it to polarized and tensor-polarized TMDs.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: We investigate quark-antiquark entanglement in heavy quarkonium within a nonperturbative light-front Hamiltonian framework. By tracing over the antiquark degrees of freedom in the hadronic state vector, we construct the reduced density matrix of the quark subsystem and compute the associated von Neumann entropy. For spin-0 quarkonia, we show that this entropy reduces to the Shannon entropy of the unpolarized transverse momentum dependent parton distribution (TMD), up to constant color and spin contributions. For spin-1 quarkonia, we derive the explicit polarization dependence of the entropy and connect it to polarized and tensor-polarized TMDs. Using light-front wave functions obtained via basis light-front quantization (BLFQ), we evaluate the entanglement entropy for charmonium and bottomonium states, revealing a pronounced sensitivity to the polarization of vector mesons. Furthermore, we resolve the infrared parameter by matching the momentum-space entropy to a harmonic-oscillator representation. Ultimately, these results establish entanglement entropy as a novel probe of nonperturbative quarkonium structure, forging a direct link between quantum information measures and partonic observables.

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