Scrambling and Entangling Spinning Particles

TL;DR

This paper investigates the entanglement and scrambling properties of spinning particles in gravitational scattering, revealing universal behaviors and the influence of initial states on entanglement generation.

Contribution

It provides a detailed analysis of gravitational eikonal amplitudes for spinning particles, highlighting universal limits and the role of initial states in entanglement dynamics.

Findings

Universal leading contribution in certain limits independent of theory

Minimal coupling results in minimal scrambling at high momenta

Initial state significantly affects entanglement generation, with some mixed states minimizing entanglement

Abstract

In this paper we revisit the gravitational eikonal amplitudes of two scattering spinning particles and inspect their scrambling power in the spin spaces that is quantified through the tripartite information. We found that in the non-relativistic limit and a special high-energy limit the leading contribution is a quantity that is universal and theory independent. The minimal coupling is singled out with minimal scrambling in a different high momenta limit. We also inspected the initial state dependence of entanglement generation and found that the spin coherent state with vanishing spin may not necessarily be the hardest to entangle. Interestingly, among a family of mixed states, the only P-rep state there known to be the best approximation of classical mixed states was singled out as one with minimal entanglement generated.