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arxiv: 2605.00129 · v1 · submitted 2026-04-30 · 🪐 quant-ph · hep-ph

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Comment on "Quantum teleportation, entanglement, LQU and LQFI in e⁺ e⁻ rightarrow Y overline{Y} processes at BESIII through noisy channels''

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keywords quantumteleportationcorrelationsphysicalbesiiichannelsdampingfidelity
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Standard decoherence models and teleportation fidelity lack physical correspondence for hyperon pairs produced in e+e- collisions, as they describe static correlations rather than dynamic evolution or operational communication.

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The paper examines a prior study that took the spin density matrix from hyperon production data at BESIII and interpreted changes in quantum measures like entanglement and teleportation fidelity as effects of noise channels such as amplitude damping or phase flip. The critique points out that these particles come from a single collision event and then fly apart as free, unstable particles. There is no ongoing interaction with an environment that would cause the kind of decoherence modeled by those abstract channels. As a result, varying a noise parameter does not track any real physical process. The authors also note that hyperons cannot be prepared, controlled, or measured in the controlled way needed for an actual teleportation experiment. Quantities such as logarithmic negativity or local quantum Fisher information therefore mainly describe how the particles were created together, not resources that could be used for communication or computation.

Core claim

the variation of quantum correlations with an abstract noise parameter does not describe a genuine physical evolution... hyperon states cannot be prepared, controlled, or measured in a way that would enable a realizable teleportation protocol.

Load-bearing premise

That the absence of a well-defined system-environment interaction for free relativistic hyperons necessarily invalidates any use of standard decoherence models, even as effective descriptions of production correlations.

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We provide a critical assessment of a recent study applying quantum information concepts, including noisy channels and teleportation fidelity, to hyperon-antihyperon pairs produced in $e^{+}e^{-} \to Y\bar Y$ reactions at BESIII. While the spin density matrix reconstructed from experimental data provides a physically meaningful description of production correlations, we argue that its subsequent interpretation in terms of standard decoherence models-such as amplitude damping, phase damping, and phase flip-lacks a clear physical correspondence for these systems. The produced particles emerge from a single scattering event and propagate as free, unstable relativistic states, without a well-defined system-environment interaction acting on their spin degrees of freedom. As a result, the variation of quantum correlations with an abstract noise parameter does not describe a genuine physical evolution. We further contend that the reported teleportation fidelity should not be interpreted as evidence for operational quantum communication, since hyperon states cannot be prepared, controlled, or measured in a way that would enable a realizable teleportation protocol. More generally, quantities such as logarithmic negativity, local quantum uncertainty, and local quantum Fisher information primarily characterize static production correlations rather than directly usable quantum resources. Our analysis highlights the importance of distinguishing between formal quantum-information measures and their physical interpretation in high-energy particle systems.

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Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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The critique rests on standard particle-physics facts about production and propagation of hyperons plus standard quantum-information distinctions between static and dynamic quantities; no new free parameters or invented entities are introduced.

axioms (2)
  • domain assumption Hyperons produced in e+e- collisions emerge as free, unstable relativistic states without a well-defined system-environment interaction acting on their spin degrees of freedom.
    Invoked in the abstract to argue that standard decoherence models lack physical correspondence.
  • domain assumption Hyperon states cannot be prepared, controlled, or measured in a way that enables a realizable teleportation protocol.
    Used to separate formal fidelity calculations from operational quantum communication.

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