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No-signaling-in-time condition for three-flavor neutrino oscillations
Massimo Blasone, Fabrizio Illuminati, Luciano Petruzziello +2
Macrorealism is a fundamental concept in quantum foundations, capturing basic features of our everyday experience. Among the main tools introduced to test violations of macrorealis…
Quantum field theory of massive chiral fields
Massimo Blasone, Petr Jizba, Luca Smaldone
We present a quantum-field-theoretic treatment of massive chiral fields in which particles possess well-defined chirality and helicity. This framework reproduces the chiral oscilla…
Perturbative and nonperturbative aspects of neutrino oscillations in quantum field theory
Massimo Blasone, Luca Smaldone
In this work, we present a comprehensive and pedagogical review of two quantum field theoretical approaches to neutrino flavor mixing and oscillations: the non-perturbative flavor…
Chiral oscillations in finite time quantum field theory
Massimo Blasone, Francesco Giacosa, Luca Smaldone +1
We demonstrate how chiral oscillations of a massive Dirac field can be described within quantum field theory using a finite-time interaction picture approach, where the mass term i…
Flavor neutrinos as unstable particles: an interaction picture view
M. Blasone, F. Giacosa, L. Smaldone +1
This paper reviews the similarities in the behavior of unstable particles and oscillating neutrinos using perturbation theory within the interaction picture of quantum field theory…
Tests of macrorealism in meson oscillation physics
Massimo Blasone, Fabrizio Illuminati, Luciano Petruzziello +2
Macrorealism formalizes the intuitive notion that at any given time the system occupies a definite state and that the evolution of the system is independent of the measurements per…
Time-energy uncertainty relation for neutrino oscillations: historical development, applications and future prospects
Giuseppe Gaetano Luciano, Luca Smaldone
Time-energy uncertainty relation (TEUR) plays a fundamental role in quantum mechanics, as it allows to grasp peculiar aspects of a variety of phenomena based on very general princi…
Effective action approach to the dynamical map
Marek Lewicki, Luca Smaldone
The dynamical map represents a fundamental concept in quantum field theory, providing a solution of the field equations in the Fock space of asymptotic fields. In this paper, we sh…
Quantum black holes as classical space factories
Alfredo Iorio, Luca Smaldone
Space and matter may both be manifestations of a single fundamental quantum dynamics, as it may become evident during black-hole evaporation. Inspired by the fact that quantum elec…
Neutrino decoherence and violation of the strong equivalence principle
Luca Buoninfante, Giuseppe Gaetano Luciano, Luciano Petruzziello +1
We analyze the dynamics of neutrino Gaussian wave-packets, the damping of flavor oscillations and decoherence effects within the framework of extended theories of gravity. In parti…
Neutrino oscillations in the interaction picture
Massimo Blasone, Francesco Giacosa, Luca Smaldone +1
We study the mixing of different kind of fields (scalar in 0+1D, scalar in 3+1D, fermion in 3+1D) treating the mixing term as an interaction. To this aim, we employ the usual pertu…
Classical space from quantum condensates
Alfredo Iorio, Luca Smaldone
We review the boson transformation method to deal with spontaneous symmetry breaking in quantum field theory, focussing on how it describes the emergence of extended and classical…
No-signaling-in-time as a condition for macrorealism: the case of neutrino oscillations
Massimo Blasone, Fabrizio Illuminati, Luciano Petruzziello +2
We consider two necessary and sufficient conditions for macrorealism recently appeared in the literature, known as no-signaling-in-time and arrow-of-time conditions, respectively,…
Quantum black holes, partition of integers and self-similarity
Paolo Castorina, Alfredo Iorio, Luca Smaldone
We take the view that the area of a black hole's event horizon is quantized, , and the associated degrees of freedom are finite in number and of fermio…
Hunting Quantum Gravity with Analogs: the case of graphene
Giovanni Acquaviva, Alfredo Iorio, Pablo Pais +1
Analogs of fundamental physical phenomena can be used in two ways. One way consists in reproducing specific aspects of classical or quantum gravity, of quantum fields in curved spa…
Leggett-Garg inequalities in the quantum field theory of neutrino oscillations
Massimo Blasone, Fabrizio Illuminati, Luciano Petruzziello +1
We investigate Leggett-Garg temporal inequalities in flavor-mixing processes. We derive an exact flavor-mass uncertainty product and we establish that it is an upper bound to the v…
Neutrino mixing and oscillations in quantum field theory: a comprehensive introduction
Luca Smaldone, Giuseppe Vitiello
We review some of the main results of the quantum field theoretical approach to neutrino mixing and oscillations. We show that the quantum field theoretical framework, where flavor…
Remarks on SU_q(2) fermions
Luca Smaldone
We show that most of the applications of SU_q(2) fermions to statistical mechanics and quantum field theory, previously discussed in literature, are based on a wrong statement abou…
Quantum Groups and Polymer Quantum Mechanics
Giovanni Acquaviva, Alfredo Iorio, Luca Smaldone
In Polymer Quantum Mechanics, a quantization scheme that naturally emerges from Loop Quantum Gravity, position and momentum operators cannot be both well-defined on the Hilbert spa…
Topologically inequivalent quantizations
Giovanni Acquaviva, Alfredo Iorio, Luca Smaldone
We discuss the representations of the algebra of quantization, the canonical commutation relations, in a scalar quantum field theory with spontaneously broken U(1) internal symmetr…
Bekenstein bound from the Pauli principle: a brief introduction
Giovanni Acquaviva, Alfredo Iorio, Luca Smaldone
Here we briefly resume the idea, originally introduced in Phys. Rev. D 102, 106002 (2020), that the Bekenstein bound on entropy is a consequence of the fermionic nature of fundamen…
Bekenstein bound from the Pauli principle
Giovanni Acquaviva, Alfredo Iorio, Luca Smaldone
Assuming that the degrees of freedom of a black hole are finite in number and of fermionic nature, we naturally obtain, within a second-quantized toy model of the evaporation, that…
A note on oscillating neutrino states in quantum field theory
Massimo Blasone, Luca Smaldone
In a recent paper (Eur. Phys. J. C 80: 68 (2020).), a definition of oscillating neutrino states in quantum field theory was proposed. We show that such definition can be derived in…
Some non-trivial aspects of Poincaré and CPT invariance of flavor vacuum
Massimo Blasone, Petr Jizba, Nikolaos E. Mavromatos +1
We study the explicit form of Poincaré and discrete transformations of flavor states in a two-flavor scalar model, which represents the simplest example of the field mixing. Becaus…