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In this work, we study the signatures of quantum entanglement by computing entanglement negativity between two causally unrelated regions in $3+1$ dimensional global de Sitter space. We investigate a bipartite quantum field theoretic setup…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-10 Sayantan Choudhury

We explore quantum entanglement between two causally disconnected regions in the multiverse. We first consider a free massive scalar field, and compute the entanglement negativity between two causally separated open charts in de Sitter…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-07-20 Sugumi Kanno , Jonathan P. Shock , Jiro Soda

We evaluate self-interaction effects on the quantum correlations of field modes of opposite momenta for scalar $\lambda \phi^4$ theory in a two-dimensional asymptotically flat Robertson-Walker spacetime. Such correlations are encoded both…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-24 Helder Alexander , Gustavo de Souza , Paul Mansfield , I. G. da Paz , Marcos Sampaio

We discuss the field quantisation of a free massive Dirac fermion in the two causally disconnected static patches of the de Sitter spacetime, by using mode functions that are normalisable on the cosmological event horizon. Using this, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-28 Sourav Bhattacharya , Shankhadeep Chakrabortty , Shivang Goyal

In this study, we investigate the fermionic Schwinger effect in the presence of a constant magnetic field within $(1+3)-$dimensional Minkowski spacetime, considering both constant and pulsed electric fields. We analyze the correlations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-28 Shagun Kaushal

We investigate the quantum entanglement properties of the Dirac field near a charged Reissner--Nordstr\"om black hole, incorporating the effects of Hawking radiation within the framework of quantum field theory in curved spacetime. Using…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-07 Abdessamie Chhieb , Chaimae Banouni , Saliha Abdessamie , Mohamed Ouchrif

In the studies of quantum field theory in curved spacetime, the ambiguous concept of vacuum state and the particle content is a long-standing debatable aspect. So far it is well known to us that in the background of the curved spacetime,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-16 Ashmita Das , Surojit Dalui , Chandramouli Chowdhury , Bibhas Ranjan Majhi

Several recent studies have considered the implications for astrophysics and cosmology of some possible nonclassical properties of spacetime at the Planck scale. The new effects, such as a Planck-scale-modified energy-momentum (dispersion)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Antonino Marciano , Giovanni Amelino-Camelia , Nicola Rossano Bruno , Giulia Gubitosi , Gianluca Mandanici , Alessandro Melchiorri

In this work, we study the phenomena of quantum entanglement by computing de Sitter entanglement entropy from von Neumann measure. For this purpose we consider a bipartite quantum field theoretic setup in presence of axion originating from…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-01 Sayantan Choudhury , Sudhakar Panda

We initiate an investigation into features of vacuum entanglement as probed by accelerated quantum probes in curved spacetime. Focussing specifically on de Sitter (dS) spacetime with curvature $\Lambda$, we obtain several exact results…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-19 Mayank , K. Hari , Subhajit Barman , Dawood Kothawala

We analyse the entanglement and the non-locality of a (1+1)-dimensional massless Dirac field confined to a cavity on a worldtube that consists of inertial and uniformly accelerated segments, for small accelerations but arbitrarily long…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-01-24 Nicolai Friis , Antony R. Lee , David Edward Bruschi , Jorma Louko

We study the free massive scalar field in de Sitter spacetime with static charts. In particular, we find positive-frequency modes for the Bunch-Davies vacuum state natural to the static charts as superpositions of the well-known…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-03 Atsushi Higuchi , Kazuhiro Yamamoto

Entanglement of Dirac fields has been studied and it is known to decrease with increasing acceleration when a quantum state is shared between users in non-inertial frames. A new form of an entangled vacuum state observed by the accelerated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-30 Leyli Esmaelifar , Behrouz Mirza , Zahra Ebadi

When observing a quantum field via detectors with access to only the mixed states of spatially separated, local regions -- a ubiquitous experimental design -- the capacity to access the full extent of distributed entanglement can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-02 Natalie Klco , D. H. Beck

A technique to build perturbative series for the spectator field's correlation functions in de Sitter space through the Fokker-Planck equation is proposed. We derive from the first-order differential equation the iterative integral relation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-19 Alexander Kamenshchik , Polina Petriakova

We argue that a scalar field in de Sitter spacetime should feel explicit thermal effects associated with its curvature. Starting from the Bunch-Davies vacuum and a scalar field with small mass compared to the de Sitter curvature, we use the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-08 Nikos Irges , Antonis Kalogirou , Fotis Koutroulis

We study the distribution of entanglement between modes of a free scalar field from the perspective of observers in uniform acceleration. We consider a two-mode squeezed state of the field from an inertial perspective, and analytically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Gerardo Adesso , Ivette Fuentes-Schuller , Marie Ericsson

We employ the semiclassical approximation to the Wheeler-DeWitt equation in the spatially flat de Sitter Universe to investigate the dynamics of a minimally coupled scalar field near the Planck scale. We find that, contrary to naive…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-07 Corrado Appignani , Roberto Casadio

The violation of the Bell inequality for Dirac fermions is investigated in the cosmological de Sitter spacetime, in the presence of background electromagnetic fields of constant strengths. The orthonormal Dirac mode functions are obtained…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-16 Md Sabir Ali , Sourav Bhattacharya , Shankhadeep Chakrabortty , Shagun Kaushal

We study the decoherence effect of quantum superposition in de Sitter (dS) spacetime due to the presence of the cosmological horizon. Using the algebraic approach of quantum field theory on curved spacetime, we derive the precise expression…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-03 Ran Li