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Reveal the lost entanglement for accelerated atoms in the high-dimensional spacetime

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When atoms are accelerated in the vacuum, entanglement among atoms will degrade compared with the initial situation before the acceleration. In this study, we propose a novel and interesting view that the lost entanglement can be recovered completely when the high-dimensional spacetime is exploited, in the case that the acceleration is not too large, since the entanglement loss rate caused by the large acceleration is faster than the recovery process. We also calculate the entanglement change caused by the anti-Unruh effect and found that the lost entanglement could just be recovered part by the anti-Unruh effect, and the anti-Unruh effect could only appear for a finite range of acceleration when the interaction time scale is approximately shorter than the reciprocal of the energy gap in two dimensional spacetime. The limit case of zero acceleration is also investigated, which gives an analytical interpretation for the increase or recovery of entanglement.

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  1. School of Mathematics and Physics, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, 430074, China

    Jiatong Yan & Baocheng Zhang

  2. Physics Department, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 02912, USA

    Jiatong Yan

  3. Center for Theoretical Physics, Hainan University, Haikou, 570228, China

    Qingyu Cai

  4. School of Information and Communication Engineering, Hainan University, Haikou, 570228, China

    Qingyu Cai

  5. Peng Huanwu Center for Fundamental Theory, Hefei, 230026, China

    Qingyu Cai

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 12375057, 11947301, and 12047502), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) (Grant No. G1323523064).

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Yan, J., Zhang, B. & Cai, Q. Reveal the lost entanglement for accelerated atoms in the high-dimensional spacetime. Sci. China Phys. Mech. Astron. 67, 260411 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11433-023-2336-y

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