Entanglement Suppression, Enhanced Symmetry and a Standard-Model-like Higgs Boson

Abstract

We study information-theoretic properties of scalar models containing two Higgs doublets $\hat{I}{¦}_a$, where $a=1,2$ is the flavor quantum number. Considering the 2-to-2 scattering $\hat{I}{¦}_a\hat{I}{¦}_b\to \hat{I}{¦}_c\hat{I}{¦}_d$ as a two-qubit system in the flavor subspace and the S-matrix as a quantum logic gate, we analyze the entanglement power of the S-matrix at the tree-level, in the limit the gauge coupling is turned off. Demanding the suppression of flavor entanglement during the scattering, the perturbative S-matrix in the broken phase can only be in the equivalent class of the Identity gate and the scalar potential exhibits a maximally enhanced $SO(8)$ symmetry acting on the 8 real components of the two doublets. The $SO(8)$ symmetry leads to the alignment limit naturally, giving rise to a Standard-Model-like Higgs boson as a consequence of entanglement suppression.

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