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Numerical Evaluation of Accelerated-Assisted Entanglement Harvesting

Quantum Physics 2016-06-13 v1

Abstract

We consider acceleration-assisted entanglement harvesting as evidenced in correlations between two accelerating Unruh detectors coupled to a scalar field. We elaborate on earlier studies, which in a stationary phase approximation calculated the entanglement dependence on two parameters c1=κLc_1 = \kappa L, and c2=κΩσ2c_2 = \kappa \Omega \sigma^2, where κ\kappa describes the detector's acceleration, LL their separation and Ω\Omega the energy splitting in a pair of two state Unruh detectors. Here, we go beyond the stationary phase approximation by performing a numerical calculation of entanglement harvesting, allowing us to present the dependence on c3=σΩc_3 = \sigma \Omega, where σ\sigma denotes the half width of a Gaussian window function specifying the field-detector interaction, and show agreement with earlier work the large c3c_3 limit.

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@article{arxiv.1606.03412,
  title  = {Numerical Evaluation of Accelerated-Assisted Entanglement Harvesting},
  author = {Andrew Brainerd and Brian Greene},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.03412},
  year   = {2016}
}

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9 pages, 5 figures