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Entanglement degradation in regular and singular spacetimes

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2026-03-24 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory Quantum Physics

Abstract

We study entanglement degradation near the horizons of regular, Reissner-Nordstr\"om, and Schwarzschild-de Sitter black holes, considering the Bardeen, Hayward, and generalized Hayward metrics as regular black holes. To this end, we compute the entanglement negativity, N\mathcal{N}, for two Unruh-like modes of a scalar field shared by Alice, who is inertial, and Rob, who hovers at a fractional offset ρ\rho outside the horizon of the backgrounds under consideration. For each geometry, we locally approximate the metric by a Rindler patch characterized by Rob's proper acceleration a0a_0. Because this Rindler approximation breaks down near the extremal limit, we also compute a near-extremal cutoff. Tracing over the inaccessible Rindler wedge yields a mixed Alice-Rob state, from which we evaluate N\mathcal{N} as a function of the mode frequency ω\omega and the acceleration a0a_0. In all geometries considered, except for one, N\mathcal{N} increases monotonically with the parameter distinguishing that geometry form the Schwarzschild one. The exception is the Reissner-Nordstr\"om metric, for which N\mathcal{N} exhibits a shallow local minimum at a particular value of the charge. We also find that the Reissner-Nordstr\"om metric is the only background for which the negativity falls below that of the Schwarzschild case. Among all cases studied, the Schwarzschild-de Sitter spacetime provides the strongest protection of entanglement. Finally, across all backgrounds, high-frequency modes undergo less degradation than low-frequency modes. These results suggest that entanglement may serve as a useful probe for distinguishing Schwarzschild spacetime from other geometries.

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@article{arxiv.2603.21857,
  title  = {Entanglement degradation in regular and singular spacetimes},
  author = {Orlando Luongo and Stefano Mancini and Sebastiano Tomasi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.21857},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

15 pages, 6 figures

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