Is quantum teleportation beyond horizon possible?

TL;DR

This paper investigates whether quantum teleportation across a horizon is feasible using entanglement from the vacuum, finding that while entanglement can be extracted, it is fragile and does not enhance teleportation performance.

Contribution

It analytically examines entanglement extraction from the Minkowski vacuum with Unruh-DeWitt detectors and assesses its effectiveness for quantum teleportation across horizons.

Findings

Entanglement can be extracted but is fragile.

Standard teleportation does not outperform non-entangled channels.

Entanglement's fragility depends on detector switching conditions.

Abstract

We ask whether quantum teleportation from the outside to the inside of a horizon is possible, using entanglement extracted from a vacuum. We first calculate analytically, within the perturbation theory, entanglement extracted from the Minkowski vacuum into a pair of an inertial and an accelerated Unruh-DeWitt detectors, which are initially in the ground states and interact with a neutral massless scalar field for an infinitely long time. We find that entanglement can be extracted, but is "fragile", depending on adiabaticity of switching of the detectors at the infinite past and future. We then consider the standard scheme of quantum teleportation utilizing the extracted entanglement, and find that the standard teleportation is not superior to channels without entanglement.