15–16 Nov 2025
University of Kansas
US/Central timezone

Quantum Entanglement in Yang-Mills

16 Nov 2025, 11:54
18m
2048 Malott Hall (University of Kansas)

2048 Malott Hall

University of Kansas

Department of Physics & Astronomy University of Kansas Lawrence, KS

Speaker

Kunfeng Lyu

Description

We study the quantum entanglement in Yang-Mills theory. Due to the Color-Kinematic duality, the color and helicity parts are separable which enables the study of the quantum entanglement in color space and helicity space individually. In color space, we compute the quantum entanglement in the SU(2) and SU(3) gauge group and display the large N limit. The Dimension-six operators preserve this universality, while dimension-eight deformations populate new color sectors and shift entanglement , suggesting that entanglement in color space functions as a tomographic probe of effective operators. In the helicity space, we show that the final states always remain maximally entangled with the maximally entangled initial state. This is related to the MHV property of the YM scattering amplitude at tree level. Our results suggest that the information-theoretic viewpoint unifies algebraic, geometric, and dynamical aspects of scattering.

Authors

Kunfeng Lyu Yue Zhao

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