Unruh effect and entanglement generation for accelerated atoms near a reflecting boundary

Journal Article · Tue May 15 00:00:00 EDT 2007 · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVD.75.104014· OSTI ID:20935263

Jialin, Zhang; Hongwei, Yu ^[1]

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1. Department of Physics and Institute of Physics, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan 410081 (China)

We study, in the framework of open systems, the entanglement generation of two independent uniformly accelerated atoms in interaction with the vacuum fluctuations of massless scalar fields subjected to a reflecting plane boundary. We demonstrate that, with the presence of the boundary, the accelerated atoms exhibit distinct features from static ones in a thermal bath at the corresponding Unruh temperature in terms of the entanglement creation at the neighborhood of the initial time. In this sense, accelerated atoms in vacuum do not necessarily have to behave as if they were static in a thermal bath at the Unruh temperature.

• OSTI ID: 20935263
• Journal Information: Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 75, Issue 10; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.75.104014; (c) 2007 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0556-2821
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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