Quantum speed limit time for bipartite entanglement in neutrino oscillations in matter with nonstandard interactions

Abstract:In the three-flavor neutrino oscillation framework, we investigate the transition probabilities of an initial muon neutrino flavor state in the presence of nonstandard interactions (NSIs) characterized by complex off-diagonal ($|\epsilon_{\alpha\beta}|e^{i\phi_{\alpha\beta}}$) and diagonal parameters ($|\epsilon_{\alpha\alpha}-\epsilon_{\beta\beta}|$), including a $CP$-violating phase and a constant matter potential, under both normal (NO) and inverted mass ordering (IO) scenarios. Within these scenarios and through the lens of mode entanglement, bipartite entanglement measures such as entanglement entropy and capacity of entanglement are quantified in terms of the transition probabilities, which can be measured in neutrino oscillation experiments. Using these two bipartite entanglement measures, we further explore the quantum speed limit (QSL) time, which describes how rapidly bipartite entanglement evolves during neutrino oscillations. We illustrate our results using the baseline lengths and energies corresponding to ongoing long-baseline accelerator neutrino experiments, such as T2K, NO$\nu$A, and the upcoming DUNE experiment. In the presence of a $CP$-violating phase and a constant matter potential, both with and without NSI effects, we compare the QSL time behavior for bipartite entanglement in neutrino oscillations for NO and IO. The most pronounced discrepancies in the QSL time for bipartite entanglement arise from the off-diagonal NSI parameter $\epsilon_{\mu\tau}$ across both the NO and IO scenarios. We emphasize that among all the experiments considered, NO$\nu$A and DUNE exhibit a rapid suppression of bipartite entanglement in neutrino oscillations in the standard oscillation scenario with NO at the end of their baseline lengths for the corresponding best-fit value of $CP$-violating phase. Our results hint at a possible imprint of new physics in neutrino oscillations.

v1: 27 pages, 11 figures, 3 tables. Matches the published version

arXiv:2602.03748 [hep-ph]

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Phys. Rev. D 114, 076011 (2026)

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