Examining Neutrino Interactions with Quantum Kinetics and Quantum Information

Simulation of neutrino interactions in high energy astrophysical phenomena in principle is a many-body problem. Being able to map the propagation of a larger collection of these neutrinos can help us understand the dynamics and isotopic abundances resulting from nucleosynthetic processes in events like core-collapse supernova and neutron star mergers. Mapping neutrino oscillations in two different models, two-flavors and three-flavors, show, when considering neutrino-neutrino interactions, differing approximations of neutrino flavor abundance at different times. Moving forward, the many-body models of these astrophysical events include the three known neutrino flavor states to account for non-negliable contributions from entanglement. Since this problem is a many-body one, to create meaningful simulations of these astrophysical events, in the future, larger systems of neutrinos must be taken into account.