18 December 2025
Departamento Fisica Teorica
Europe/Madrid timezone

Entanglement: A possible source of information on nuclear structure

18 Dec 2025, 12:10
30m
Seminario Fisica Teorica 2nd Floor (Departamento Fisica Teorica)

Seminario Fisica Teorica 2nd Floor

Departamento Fisica Teorica

Speaker

Youssef KHLIFI (IGFAE_USC)

Description

Entanglement offers a compact and quantitative way to characterize correlations in quantum many-body systems, and can therefore provide new information on nuclear structure beyond standard observables. In this talk I discuss how quantum-information concepts—focusing on spin entanglement—can be connected to few-body nuclear dynamics, with emphasis on two-proton emission. Motivated by recent theoretical predictions of Bell–CHSH inequality violation in the unbound nucleus 6Be, I outline how the decay 6Be →α+p+p can serve as a sensitive probe of proton–proton correlations and decay mechanisms. I also summarize the experimental perspective at R3B/GLAD, where full reconstruction of charged fragments and downstream proton polarimetry can enable access to spin observables and entanglement-related signatures.

Authors

A. Macchiavelli (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA) D. Bai (Hohai U.) D. Bazin (FRIB@MSU) Dean Lee (FRIB@MSU) H. Alvarez-Pol (IGFAE@USC)) W. Mittig (FRIB@MSU) Yassid Ayyad (IGFAE@USC)) Youssef KHLIFI (IGFAE_USC)

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