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Motion generates entanglement

Quantum Physics 2012-04-20 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We demonstrate entanglement generation between mode pairs of a quantum field in a nonuniformly accelerated cavity in Minkowski space-time. The effect is sensitive to the initial state, the choice of the mode pair and bosonic versus fermionic statistics, and it can be stronger by orders of magnitude than the entanglement degradation between a nonuniformly accelerated cavity and an inertial cavity. Detailed results are obtained for massless scalar and spinor fields in (1+1) dimensions. By the equivalence principle, the results provide a model of entanglement generation by gravitational effects.

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@article{arxiv.1201.0549,
  title  = {Motion generates entanglement},
  author = {Nicolai Friis and David Edward Bruschi and Jorma Louko and Ivette Fuentes},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1201.0549},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

5 pages, 2 figures, Ivette Fuentes previously published as Ivette Fuentes-Guridi and Ivette Fuentes-Schuller; v3: minor changes, updated references

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