Quantum entanglement and bell violation in Higgs Boson decays

Quantum state tomography is used to reconstruct the bipartite spin density matrices of simulated diboson systems at energies achievable at the LHC. The Wigner-Weyl spin formalism is used to find the inverse mapping from the decay angular distributions to operators in the system’s Hilbert space for H...

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Main Author: Barker, G
Format: Working paper
Language:English
Published: 2023
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description Quantum state tomography is used to reconstruct the bipartite spin density matrices of simulated diboson systems at energies achievable at the LHC. The Wigner-Weyl spin formalism is used to find the inverse mapping from the decay angular distributions to operators in the system’s Hilbert space for H → WW, pp → WZ and H → ZZ. For the latter, a revised symmetric density matrix is proposed and tested. Measures of quantum entanglement and violation of Bell’s inequalities for these systems are calculated, predicting all three systems showing evidence of non-classical correlations and both systems resulting from Higgs boson decays predicting incompatibility with local-realist theories. A method is presented for optimising such Bell violation through unitary transforms and determining its statistical significance. Analysis shows the WW system is expected to violate Bell’s inequalities with certainty ~ 5.9𝜎, and similarly the ZZ system with ~ 1.0𝜎 at an integrated luminosity of 300 fb-1.
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spelling oxford-uuid:1bbc0dde-531b-487f-817d-fa4bb16f23c22023-12-11T18:55:08ZQuantum entanglement and bell violation in Higgs Boson decaysWorking paperhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_8042uuid:1bbc0dde-531b-487f-817d-fa4bb16f23c2EnglishSymplectic Elements2023Barker, GQuantum state tomography is used to reconstruct the bipartite spin density matrices of simulated diboson systems at energies achievable at the LHC. The Wigner-Weyl spin formalism is used to find the inverse mapping from the decay angular distributions to operators in the system’s Hilbert space for H → WW, pp → WZ and H → ZZ. For the latter, a revised symmetric density matrix is proposed and tested. Measures of quantum entanglement and violation of Bell’s inequalities for these systems are calculated, predicting all three systems showing evidence of non-classical correlations and both systems resulting from Higgs boson decays predicting incompatibility with local-realist theories. A method is presented for optimising such Bell violation through unitary transforms and determining its statistical significance. Analysis shows the WW system is expected to violate Bell’s inequalities with certainty ~ 5.9𝜎, and similarly the ZZ system with ~ 1.0𝜎 at an integrated luminosity of 300 fb-1.
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title Quantum entanglement and bell violation in Higgs Boson decays
title_full Quantum entanglement and bell violation in Higgs Boson decays
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title_short Quantum entanglement and bell violation in Higgs Boson decays
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