Tripartite entanglement of oscillating and decohering neutrinos

Abstract

We study entanglement measures for oscillating neutrinos in the wave-packet formalism and confirm that an oscillating neutrino exhibits genuine tripartite entanglement and can be characterized as a member of the W class of states. We also show that this feature survives in the decoherence limit, and discuss the effect of CP phases on the entanglement. These findings provide new insights into the quantum nature of neutrino oscillations and their potential role in quantum information science, especially for neutrinos propagating large distances such as the astrophysical neutrinos observed at neutrino telescopes.

Comments: 15 pages, 16 figures