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Higgs Scattering and Entanglement in SMEFT

Hyun Min Lee·Rojalin Padhan
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We regard the weak isospin of the Higgs doublet as a qubit and classify the entanglement measures for the Higgs scattering in the Standard Model Effective Field Theories (SMEFT) and their Ultra-Violet complete models. We consider Higgs scattering in the unbroken phase for electroweak symmetry. Treating the final state as a momentum-isospin bipartite system, we obtain von Neumann and linear entropies to quantify momentum-isospin correlation. From the momentum reduced state, we calculate the concurrence, which measures the entanglement between the two isospins. Both quantities are set by the isospin singlet and triplet scattering amplitudes, and hence by the Wilson coefficients of the dimension-6 and dimension-8 Higgs operators. We find that the von Neumann entropy grows as a function of the total energy in SMEFT as compared to the SM case, but it undergoes a cancellation in the medium energy below the cut-off scale due to the interference effects between the dimension-4 and dimension-8 operators, in particular, when the effective interactions stem dominantly from a massive graviton. Assuming the dominance of dimension-8 operators, we find the conditions for entanglement suppression in the forward or backward scatterings or across all the kinematics. We also show the correlations between the entanglement suppression and the positivity bounds in the forward limit.

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Hyun Min Lee, Rojalin Padhan. 2026-06-23. Higgs Scattering and Entanglement in SMEFT. https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.25233

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