Colloquium - Baha Balantekin, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Monday 24 February 2025 -
15:00
Monday 24 February 2025
15:00
Tea in the Atrium
Tea in the Atrium
15:00 - 15:30
Room: 307
15:30
Colloquium
Colloquium
15:30 - 16:30
Room: 307
Entanglement of Astrophysical Neutrinos Abstract: Core-collapse supernovae and neutron-star mergers produce copious amount of neutrinos, which impact evolution of these astrophysical sites as well as the element synthesis they may host. Collective oscillations of these neutrinos represent emergent nonlinear flavor evolution phenomena instigated by neutrino-neutrino interactions in astrophysical environments with sufficiently high neutrino densities. In this talk, after a brief introduction, it will be shown that neutrinos exhibit interesting entanglement behavior in simplified models of those oscillations. Also attempts to study this behavior using classical and quantum computers will be described.