@article{phantomtransitionsinlanguagemodelfinetun,
  title = {Phantom Transitions in Language Model Fine-Tuning: A Density-Matrix Analysis},
  author = {Vaibhav Prakash and Jayasri Dontabhaktuni},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2606.07559},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.07559},
}