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Probing Planckian physics in de Sitter space with quantum correlations

Quantum Physics 2014-11-18 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We study the quantum correlation and quantum communication channel of both free scalar and fermionic fields in de Sitter space, while the Planckian modification presented by the choice of a particular α\alpha-vacuum has been considered. We show that the occurrence of degradation of quantum entanglement between field modes for an inertial observer in curved space, due to the radiation associated with its cosmological horizon. Comparing with standard Bunch-Davies choice, the possible Planckian physics causes some extra decrement on the quantum correlation, which may provide the means to detect quantum gravitational effects via quantum information methodology in future. Beyond single-mode approximation, we construct proper Unruh modes admitting general α\alpha-vacua, and find a convergent feature of both bosonic and fermionic entanglements. In particular, we show that the convergent points of fermionic entanglement negativity are dependent on the choice of α\alpha. Moreover, an one-to-one correspondence between convergent points HcH_c of negativity and zeros of quantum capacity of quantum channels in de Sitter space has been proved.

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@article{arxiv.1211.3002,
  title  = {Probing Planckian physics in de Sitter space with quantum correlations},
  author = {Jun Feng and Yao-Zhong Zhang and Mark D. Gould and Heng Fan and Cheng-Yi Sun and Wen-Li Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1211.3002},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

25 pages, 7 figures, replaced to match the published version

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