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Correlation Redistribution by Causal Horizons

Quantum Physics 2022-05-26 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

The Minkowski vacuum 0M|0\rangle_M, which for an inertial observer is devoid of particles, is treated as a thermal bath by Rindler observers living in a single Rindler wedge, as a result of the discrepancy in the definition of positive frequency between the two classes of observers and a strong entanglement between degrees of freedom in the left and right Rindler wedges. We revisit, in the context of a free scalar Klein-Gordon field, the problem of quantification of the correlations between an inertial observer Alice and left/right Rindler observes Rob/AntiRob. We emphasize the analysis of informational quantities, like the locally accessible and locally inaccessible information, and a closely associated entanglement measure, the entanglement of formation. We conclude that, with respect to the correlation structure probed by inertial observers alone, the introduction of a Rindler observer gives rise to a correlation redistribution which can be quantified by the entanglement of formation.

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@article{arxiv.2002.07316,
  title  = {Correlation Redistribution by Causal Horizons},
  author = {L. Pipolo de Gioia and M. C. de Oliveira},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.07316},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

9 pages, 7 figures

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