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Positivity in Amplitudes and Quantum Entanglement
Rafael Aoude, Gilly Elor, Grant N. Remmen, Olcyr Sumensari·February 26, 2024·DOI: 10.1002/prop.70113
hep-thhep-phQuantum Physics
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Abstract
We explore the connection of positivity of the imaginary part of forward elastic amplitudes for perturbative scattering with consistency of the entanglement generated by the S-matrix, for states with arbitrary internal quantum numbers such as flavor. We also analyze "disentanglers," certain highly entangled initial states for which the action of the S-matrix is to decrease subsystem entanglement. As a by-product, we develop a framework based on wave packets to regularize the spacetime divergences that appear in the plane-wave derivation of the $2\to2$ entanglement expression.