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Quantum discord between relatively accelerated observers

Quantum Physics 2013-05-29 v1

Abstract

We calculate the quantum discord between two free modes of a scalar field which start in a maximally entangled state and then undergo a relative, constant acceleration. In a regime where there is no distillable entanglement due to the Unruh effect, we show that there is a finite amount of quantum discord, which is a measure of purely quantum correlations in a state, over and above quantum entanglement. Even in the limit of infinite acceleration of the observer detecting one of the modes, we provide evidence for a non-zero amount of purely quantum correlations, which might be exploited to gain non-trivial quantum advantages.

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@article{arxiv.0905.3301,
  title  = {Quantum discord between relatively accelerated observers},
  author = {Animesh Datta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0905.3301},
  year   = {2013}
}

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4 pages, 2 figures

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