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Unruh-DeWitt detectors and entanglement: the anti-de Sitter space

Quantum Physics 2018-12-19 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We investigate entanglement harvesting in AdS4_4. Applying the general results of [Phys. Rev. D 97, 125011 (2018)], we consider two scenarios: one where two particle detectors are geodesic, with equal redshift; and one where both are static, at unequal redshift. As expected, at large AdS length LL, our results approximate flat space. However at smaller LL we observe non-trivial effects for various field boundary conditions. Furthermore, in the static case we observe a novel feature of the entanglement as a function of switching time delay, which we attribute to different (coordinate) frequencies of the detectors. We also find an island of separability in parameter space, analogous that that observed in AdS3_3, to which we compare and contrast our other results. The variety of features observed in both cases suggest further study in other spacetimes.

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@article{arxiv.1809.06878,
  title  = {Unruh-DeWitt detectors and entanglement: the anti-de Sitter space},
  author = {Keith K. Ng and Robert B. Mann and Eduardo Martin-Martinez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.06878},
  year   = {2018}
}

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