Wave packets losing their covariance

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2020.114972zbMATH Open1473.81230arXiv1905.09004OpenAlexW3007200671MaRDI QIDQ2230239FDOQ2230239

Authors: Hosam Mohammed, Emilio Ciuffoli, Jarah Evslin 

Publication date: 17 September 2021

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In neutrino physics, it is sometimes assumed that all wave packets must transform covariantly as Lorentz vectors. We show in a simple example that even if the initial conditions of a wave packet are covariant, then evolution in a relativistic interacting theory followed by a measurement of entangled particles can lead to a wave packet which is no longer covariant.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.09004

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Weak interaction in quantum theory (81V15) Covariant wave equations in quantum theory, relativistic quantum mechanics (81R20)

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• Wave packet treatment of neutrino flavor oscillations in various spacetimes
• On the evolution of an entangled lepton -- neutrino pair

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