We use the Unruh effect to investigate how the teleportation of quantum states is affected when one of the entangled qubits used in the process is under the influence of some external force. In order to reach a comprehensive understanding, a detailed analysis of the acceleration effect on such entangled qubit system is performed. In particular, we calculate the mutual information and concurrence between the two qubits and show that the latter has a "sudden death" at a finite acceleration, whose value will depend on the time interval along which the detector is accelerated.
We use the Unruh effect to analyze the dynamics of classical and quantum correlations for a two-qubit system when one of them is uniformly accelerated for a finite amount of proper time. We show that the quantum correlation is completely destroyed in the limit of infinite acceleration, while the classical one remains nonzero. In particular, we show that such correlations exhibit the so-called sudden-change behavior as a function of acceleration. Eventually, we discuss how our results can be interpreted when the system lies in the vicinity of the event horizon of a Schwarzschild black hole.
We investigate the transmission of both classical and quantum information
between two arbitrary observers in globally hyperbolic spacetimes using a
quantum field as a communication channel. The field is supposed to be in some
arbitrary quasifree state and no choice of representation of its canonical
commutation relations is made. Both sender and receiver possess some localized
two-level quantum system with which they can interact with the quantum field to
prepare the input and receive the output of the channel, respectively. The
interaction between the two-level systems and the quantum field is such that
one can trace out the field degrees of freedom exactly and thus obtain the
quantum channel in a nonperturbative way. We end the paper determining the
unassisted as well as the entanglement-assisted classical and quantum channel
capacities.Comment: 12 pages, Reference added, typos corrected. Minor changes to match
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Recently, the inverse β-decay rate calculated with respect to uniformly accelerated observers (experiencing the Unruh thermal bath) was revisited. Concerns have been raised regarding the compatibility of inertial and accelerated observers' results when neutrino mixing is taken into account. Here, we show that these concerns are unfounded by discussing the properties of the Unruh thermal bath with mixing neutrinos and explicitly calculating the decay rates according to both sets of observers, confirming thus that they are in agreement. The Unruh effect is perfectly valid for mixing neutrinos.
Although the Unruh effect can be rigorously considered as well tested as free quantum field theory itself, it would be nice to provide an experimental evidence of its existence. This is not easy because the linear acceleration needed to reach a temperature 1 K is of order 10 20 m/s 2 . Here, we propose a simple experiment reachable under present technology whose result may be directly interpreted in terms of the Unruh thermal bath. Instead of waiting for experimentalists to perform it, we use standard classical electrodynamics to anticipate its output and fulfill our goal.Introduction: In 1976 Unruh unveiled one of the most interesting effects of quantum field theory according to which linearly accelerated observers with proper acceleration a = constant in the Minkowski vacuum (i.e., no-particle state for inertial observers) detect a thermal bath of particles at a temperature [1] (see also note [2])
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