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Nuclear Physics Seminar - Adrian Dumitru (Baruch College) "Entanglement correlations in double quark PDFs"

Event Type
Seminar/Symposium
Sponsor
Physics Department
Location
Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Date
Mar 24, 2025   1:00 pm  
Speaker
Adrian Dumitru
Contact
Brandy Koebbe
E-Mail
bkoebbe@illinois.edu
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Originating Calendar
Physics - Nuclear Physics Seminar

Entanglement, a quantum correlation in superposition states, is one of the most striking breaks of the quantum theory of matter and radiation from classical theory. In a light-front Fock state description of the proton, each Fock state corresponds to a superposition of quarks, anti-quarks, and gluons, of all possible combinations of colors, flavors, spins, and momenta. Entanglement of various degrees of freedom in the proton is currently being studied intensively.

After a brief introduction I will discuss the application of methods from Quantum Information Theory to scrutinize quantum correlations encoded in the double quark parton distribution function (dPDF) over light-cone momentum fractions x1 and x2. I also discuss performing one step of QCD scale evolution of the entire density matrix, not just its diagonal (dPDF), by computing collinearly divergent corrections due to the emission of a gluon, and finally present first qualitative numerical results for scale evolution of quantum entanglement correlations in double quark PDFs.

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