Flavor--Kinetic Entanglement Production from Decay and Scattering at Finite Density

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.07995v1
• Date: Sat, 08 Aug 2026 08:04:45 GMT
• Title: Flavor--Kinetic Entanglement Production from Decay and Scattering at Finite Density
• Abstract summary: We show that tracing over kinematic degrees of freedom maps the total branch-changing transition probability onto the leading flavor--kinetic linear entanglement entropy.<n>As a proof of principle, this framework is applied to an $O(N)$ singlet-scalar extended model to probe thermal phase transitions.
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• Abstract: We extend the scattering-entanglement dictionary to finite-density environments by investigating the flavor--kinetic bipartition of the Hilbert space. We show that tracing over kinematic degrees of freedom maps the total branch-changing transition probability directly onto the leading flavor--kinetic linear entanglement entropy. At finite density, the vacuum branch-changing probability is replaced by an occupation-weighted collision probability, built from the same directed reaction-density kernel that enters the integrated Boltzmann equation. The resulting observable is the bath-averaged flavor--kinetic entanglement entropy of a pair sampled from the medium. As a proof of principle, this framework is applied to an $O(N)$ singlet-scalar extended model to probe thermal phase transitions. In the examples studied, the resulting entanglement entropy serves as a collision-based phase-transition-type diagnostic, exhibiting a finite discontinuity across a first-order phase transition and a nonanalytic temperature derivative for continuous transitions. These examples suggest a novel way to characterize thermal phase structures, distinct from traditional thermodynamic order parameters.

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