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Title: Continuous-variable entanglement sharing in noninertial frames

Journal Article · · Physical Review. A
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  1. Dipartimento di Fisica 'E. R. Caianiello', Universita degli Studi di Salerno, 84081 Baronissi, SA, Italy and Grup de Fisica Teorica, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona (Spain)

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 study the degradation of entanglement due to the Unruh effect, in the cases of either one or both observers undergoing uniform acceleration. We find that, for two observers undergoing finite acceleration, the entanglement vanishes between the lowest-frequency modes. The loss of entanglement is precisely explained as a redistribution of the inertial entanglement into multipartite quantum correlations among accessible and inaccessible modes from a noninertial perspective. We show that classical correlations are also lost from the perspective of two accelerated observers but conserved if one of the observers remains inertial.

OSTI ID:
21140613
Journal Information:
Physical Review. A, Vol. 76, Issue 6; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.76.062112; (c) 2007 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1050-2947
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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