Modified Entanglement Patterns in Four-Flavor Neutrinos from Quantum-Gravity Interactions

TL;DR

This paper studies how quantum-gravity effects at the Planck scale modify neutrino entanglement entropy in a four-flavor model, revealing potential observable deviations in oscillation patterns.

Contribution

It introduces a dimension-5 operator to incorporate quantum-gravity corrections into four-flavor neutrino oscillations and analyzes their impact on entanglement entropy evolution.

Findings

Atmospheric mixing angle θ_{23} shows the largest deviation due to QG effects.

QG corrections cause characteristic deviations in entanglement entropy as a function of L/E.

Angles θ_{14}, θ_{24}, and θ_{34} remain largely unaffected by QG corrections.

Abstract

We investigate the influence of quantum-gravity (QG) induced corrections on the entanglement entropy associated with four-flavor neutrino oscillations in vacuum, incorporating an additional sterile neutrino in the (3+1) framework. Using the von Neumann entropy as a measure of quantum correlations, we analyze how Planck-scale suppressed modifications to the neutrino mass-squared differences and the extended mixing matrix affect the evolution of entanglement during successive oscillation cycles. The quantum-gravity corrections are implemented through a dimension-5 effective field theory operator that modifies the four-flavor PMNS matrix and all six mixing angles above the GUT scale. We find that the atmospheric mixing angle \theta_{23} undergoes the largest deviation due to Planck-scale effects, while angles \theta_{14}, \theta_{24}, and \theta_{34} remain essentially unchanged. The resulting QG-corrected oscillation probabilities produce characteristic deviations in the entanglement entropy profile as a function of L/E, providing a sensitive probe of Planck-scale physics within a four-flavor neutrino phenomenology framework.