[RBRC seminar] Entanglement in High-Energy Physics

by Prof. Ismail Zahed (Stony Brook University)

Thursday 21 May 2026, 12:30 → 14:30 US/Eastern

2-160 (https://bnl.zoomgov.com/j/1600983728?pwd=RAD7OLcqre7Ycsp6JfFp6HAnpyLxex.1)

I wil review some aspects of quantum entanglement entropy in high energy physics. I will discuss how entanglement emerges naturally in proton-proton and deep inelastic scattering at high energies, where  string-bit dynamics, saturation and Pomeron exchange can be interpreted through entangled density matrices and thermal-like entropy production.  Using worldline and worldsheet instanton methods, together with holographic and string based approaches, I show how coherent quantum processes generate rapid apparent thermalization and entropy growth in hadron collisions. Applications to low-x  DIS, multiplicity distributions, KNO scaling, and Schwinger pair production in QED2 will be discussed.