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arXiv:1607.01715

Momentum correlations of scattered particles in quantum field theory: one-loop entanglement generation

Ricardo Faleiro, R. Pavao, Alexander, Helder, Brigitte Hiller, Alex H. Blin, Marcos Sampaio

Published Jul 6, 2016• 2 citations
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Abstract

We compute the entanglement entropy variation between initial (separable or entangled in the momenta) and final states $ΔS_E$ in an elastic scattering of a bipartite system composed by two interacting scalar particles. We perform a quantum field theoretical calculation to one loop order and verify that $ΔS_E $ changes as we vary the energy of incoming particles and the coupling strength in a non-trivial way.

DOI
10.48550/arxiv.1607.01715

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