Quantum properties of fermionic fields in multi-event horizon spacetime

• Published in: Science China. Physics, mechanics & astronomy Vol. 66; no. 12; p. 120413
• Main Authors: Liu, Qianqian, Wu, Shu-Min, Wen, Cuihong, Wang, Jieci
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Beijing Science China Press 01.12.2023; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Accessibility; Astronomy; Black holes; Classical and Continuum Physics; Correlation; Data processing; Degradation; Event horizon; Observations and Techniques; Physics; Physics and Astronomy; Quantum entanglement; Quantum phenomena; Scalars; Spacetime; multi-event horizon spacetime; quantum entanglement; SdS spacetime; Dirac field
• ISSN: 1674-7348; 1869-1927
• DOI: 10.1007/s11433-023-2246-8

We investigated the properties of quantum entanglement and mutual information in the multi-event horizon Schwarzschild-de Sitter (SdS) spacetime for massless Dirac fields. For the first time, we obtained the expression for the evolutions of the quantum state near the black hole event horizon (BEH) and cosmological event horizon (CEH) in the SdS spacetime. Under the Nariai limit, the physically accessible entanglement and mutual information are maximized, and the physically inaccessible correlations are zero. With the increase in temperature of either horizon, the physically accessible correlations experience degradation. Notably, the initial state remains entangled and can be utilized in entanglement-based quantum information processing tasks, which differs from the scalar field case. Furthermore, the degradation of physically accessible correlations is more pronounced for small-mass black holes. In contrast, the physically inaccessible correlations separated by the CEH monotonically increase with the radiation temperature, and such correlations are not decisively influenced by the effect of particle creation at the BEH. Moreover, a similar phenomenon is observed for the inaccessible correlations separated by the BEH. This result differs from the single event spacetime, in which the physically inaccessible entanglement is a monotonic function of the Hawking temperature.