2011/05/10 by David Edward Bruschi, Ivette Fuentes, Jorma Louko · 1 voice · 91 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Acceleration #Classical mechanics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Geometry #Gravitation #Gravitational acceleration #Gravitational field #Graviton #Massless particle #Minkowski space #Observable #Physics #Quantum #Quantum Electrodynamics and Casimir Effect #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #Quantum electrodynamics #Quantum entanglement #Quantum mechanics #Scalar (mathematics) #Scalar field #gr-qc #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.85.061701
published in Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields 85(6) (American Physical Society) · I. Fuentes previously published as I. Fuentes-Guridi and I. Fuentes-Schuller. v3: Transverse dimensions included, making degradation observable at optical wavelengths. v4: Presentational clarifications. Published version. v5: This arXiv posting corrects a typographic error in Eq. (7a) of the published version
arxiv published 2011/05/10 · openalex publication_date 2012/03/15 · arxiv created 2014/01/04 · arxiv updated 2014/01/04 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We propose a scheme to investigate whether nonuniform motion degrades entanglement of a relativistic quantum field that is localized both in space and in time. For a Dirichlet scalar field in a cavity in Minkowski space, in small but freely adjustable acceleration of finite but arbitrarily long duration, degradation of observable magnitude occurs for massless transverse quanta of optical wavelength at Earth gravity acceleration and for kaon mass quanta already at microgravity acceleration. We outline a space-based experiment for observing the effect and its gravitational counterpart.