Entanglement harvesting for Unruh-DeWitt detectors in circular motion

Abstract

We study the properties of the transition probability and entanglement harvesting phenomenon for circularly accelerated detectors locally interacting with massless scalar fields. The dependence of the transition probability on the parameters associated with the circular motion is first analyzed in detail. By a cross-comparison with the situation of the uniformly accelerated motion, we obtain that the transition probability and the possible thermalization behavior for detectors rotating with an extremely large circular radius are analogous to that for uniformly accelerated detectors, but for a very small linear speed and a large acceleration, the effective temperature which characterizes the detectors' thermalization in a finite duration is much lower than that for uniformly accelerated detectors. We then focus on the phenomenon of entanglement harvesting in two special situations of circular trajectories, i.e., the coaxial rotation and the mutually perpendicular axial rotation by examining the concurrence as the entanglement measure in detail. We find that when two circularly accelerated detectors have equivalent acceleration and size of circular trajectory, the harvested entanglement rapidly decays with increasing acceleration or separation between two detectors. In contrast with the situation of uniform acceleration, the angular velocity would have significant impacts on entanglement harvesting. Especially for those detectors circularly moving in different directions, both the acceleration and trajectory radius play an important inhibiting role in entanglement harvesting. When two circularly accelerated detectors have different values of acceleration or angular velocity, we find that the entanglement can still be extracted by such detectors, even in the situation that one detector is at rest and the other is in a circular motion.

32 pages, 15 figures

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