Dynamics and quantum entanglement of two-level atoms in de Sitter spacetime

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2014.07.006zbMATH Open1344.81055arXiv1407.4930OpenAlexW1997817438MaRDI QIDQ309341FDOQ309341

Authors: Zehua Tian, Jiliang Jing 

Publication date: 7 September 2016

Published in: Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In the framework of open quantum systems, we study the internal dynamics of both freely falling and static two-level atoms interacting with quantized conformally coupled massless scalar field in de Sitter spacetime. We find that the atomic transition rates depend on both the nature of de Sitter spacetime and the motion of atoms, interestingly the steady states for both cases are always driven to being purely thermal, regardless of the atomic initial states. This thermalization phenomenon is structurally similar to what happens to an elementary quantum system immersed in a thermal field, and thus reveals the thermal nature of de Sitter spacetime. Besides, we find that the thermal baths will drive the entanglement shared by the freely falling atom (the static atom) and its auxiliary partner, a same two-level atom which is isolated from external fields, to being sudden death, and the proper time for the entanglement to be extinguished is computed. We also analyze that such thermalization and disentanglement phenomena, in principle, could be understood from the perspective of table-top simulation experiment.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.4930

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zbMATH Keywords

de Sitter spacetimequantum correlationsopen quantum system

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40) Quantum mechanics on special spaces: manifolds, fractals, graphs, lattices (81Q35) Open systems, reduced dynamics, master equations, decoherence (81S22)

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