HomeDate: 2025-02-14
Achieving a full understanding of the most catastrophic cosmic events—like supernovae and neutron star mergers—has long beenhampered by the elusive quantum behavior of neutrinos, tiny particles whose collective quantum oscillations play a crucial role. Using advanced quantum kinetic transport simulations, researchers found that the key quantum oscillations at microscopic scales average out over larger scales, enabling this effect to be accurately modeled using a simple effective classical transport framework. This innovative approach significantly reduces computational challenges, paving the way for astrophysicists to conduct detailed simulations that could revolutionize our understanding of these phenomena.
This research was conducted by physicists from IoP, including Dr. Meng-Ru Wu and Dr. Manu George, along with collaborators Dr. Zewei Xiong (GSI, Germany) and Dr. Chun-Yu Lin (NCHC, Taiwan). The study was published on February 7, 2025, in Physical Review Letters.
