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Comment on "Environmental memory effects and quantum resource hierarchies in polarized hyperon--antihyperon systems"

Saeed Haddadi
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Saeed Haddadi challenges a recent study on quantum resources in polarized hyperon-antihyperon systems, arguing that its interpretation of correlated dephasing channels as physical environmental effects lacks justification. The original work claimed non-Markovianity, information backflow, and memory-assisted protection of quantum resources, but Haddadi contends these are artifacts of a phenomenological model rather than established high-energy particle dynamics. He highlights unresolved issues in dephasing dynamics, entanglement quantification, and the basis dependence of coherence, urging a revision of the physical interpretation and quantitative conclusions. The critique underscores the need to distinguish between theoretical modeling and experimentally grounded mechanisms in quantum systems.
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This critique sharpens the boundary between abstract quantum-channel models and verifiable physical processes, ensuring future high-energy quantum studies avoid conflating phenomenology with empirical reality.

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Quantum Physics arXiv:2609.01686 (quant-ph) [Submitted on 1 Sep 2026] Title:Comment on "Environmental memory effects and quantum resource hierarchies in polarized hyperon--antihyperon systems" Authors:Saeed Haddadi View a PDF of the paper titled Comment on "Environmental memory effects and quantum resource hierarchies in polarized hyperon--antihyperon systems", by Saeed Haddadi View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:We comment on the recent work [Eur. Phys. J. C 86, 988 (2026)], which investigates quantum resources in polarized hyperon--antihyperon systems using correlated dephasing channels with memory. Although the use of experimentally reconstructed spin-density matrices to characterize quantum correlations in hyperon production may be a good motivation, we argue that the interpretation of the hyperon--antihyperon pair as an open quantum system undergoing correlated environmental decoherence is not physically established. In particular, no physical environment or system--environment interaction responsible for the assumed correlated dephasing channel is identified, and hadronization cannot simply be interpreted as such an environmental dephasing process. Consequently, the claimed non-Markovianity, information backflow, and memory-assisted protection of quantum resources should be regarded as properties of a phenomenological channel rather than established physical effects in hyperon--antihyperon production. We also identify several technical and conceptual issues concerning the dephasing dynamics, entanglement quantification, basis dependence of coherence, and the claimed hierarchy of quantum resources. These issues call for a substantial revision of the physical interpretation and quantitative conclusions of the work. We hope that the present Comment will help clarify the distinction between phenomenological quantum-channel modeling and physically established dynamical mechanisms in high-energy particle systems, and thereby provide useful guidance for future studies and help avoid similar conceptual and technical issues. Comments: Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) Cite as: arXiv:2609.01686 [quant-ph] (or arXiv:2609.01686v1 [quant-ph] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.01686 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) Submission history From: Saeed Haddadi [view email] [v1] Tue, 1 Sep 2026 15:08:09 UTC (10 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled Comment on "Environmental memory effects and quantum resource hierarchies in polarized hyperon--antihyperon systems", by Saeed HaddadiView PDFHTML (experimental)TeX Source view license Current browse context: quant-ph new | recent | 2026-09 Change to browse by: hep-ex hep-ph References & Citations INSPIRE HEP NASA ADSGoogle Scholar Semantic Scholar export BibTeX citation Loading... BibTeX formatted citation × loading... Data provided by: Bookmark Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data, Media Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv Toggle alphaXiv (What is alphaXiv?) Links to Code Toggle CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers (What is CatalyzeX?) DagsHub Toggle DagsHub (What is DagsHub?) GotitPub Toggle Gotit.pub (What is GotitPub?) Huggingface Toggle Hugging Face (What is Huggingface?) ScienceCast Toggle ScienceCast (What is ScienceCast?) Demos Demos Replicate Toggle Replicate (What is Replicate?) Spaces Toggle Hugging Face Spaces (What is Spaces?) Spaces Toggle TXYZ.AI (What is TXYZ.AI?) Related Papers Recommenders and Search Tools Link to Influence Flower Influence Flower (What are Influence Flowers?) Core recommender toggle CORE Recommender (What is CORE?) Author Venue Institution Topic About arXivLabs arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs. Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax?)

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