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Entanglement in non-inertial frames

Posted on:2009-12-19Degree:M.ScType:Thesis
University:University of Waterloo (Canada)Candidate:Ostapchuk, David Cecil MurphyFull Text:PDF
GTID:2440390002991837Subject:Physics
Abstract/Summary:
This thesis considers entanglement, an important resource for quantum information processing tasks, while taking into account the theory of relativity. Not only is this a more complete description of quantum information, but it is necessary to fully understand quantum information processing tasks done by systems in arbitrary motion.;It is shown that accelerated measurements on the vacuum of a free Dirac spinor field results in an entangled state for an inertial observer. The physical mechanism at work is the Davies-Unruh effect. The entanglement produced increases as a function of the acceleration, reaching maximal entanglement in the asymptotic limit of infinite acceleration.;The dynamics of entanglement between two Unruh-DeWitt detectors, one stationary and the other undergoing non-uniform acceleration, was studied numerically. In the ultraweak coupling limit, the entanglement decreases as a function of time for the parameters considered and decreases faster than if the moving detector had had a uniform acceleration.
Keywords/Search Tags:Entanglement, Quantum information, Acceleration
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