1 September 2024 to 1 April 2025
Europe/Zurich timezone

Quantum Information meets High-Energy Physics: Input to the update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics

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Description

Some of the most astonishing and prominent properties of Quantum Mechanics, such as entanglement and Bell nonlocality, have only been studied extensively in dedicated low-energy laboratory setups. The feasibility of these studies in the high-energy regime explored by particle colliders was only recently shown, and has gathered the attention of the scientific community. For the range of particles and fundamental interactions involved, particle colliders provide a novel environment where quantum information theory can be probed, with energies exceeding, by about 12 orders of magnitude, the laboratory setups typically used in the field. Furthermore, collider detectors have inherent advantages in performing certain quantum information measurements, and allow for the reconstruction the state of the system under consideration via quantum state tomography. Here, we elaborate on the potential, challenges, and goals of this innovative and rapidly evolving line of research, and discuss its expected impact on both quantum information theory and high-energy physics.

Authors

Federica Fabbri (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT)) Luca Marzola (University Of Tartu) Matthew Low (University of Pittsburgh) Yoav Afik (University of Chicago (US))

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