Cosmological Expansion Induces Interference Between Communication and Entanglement Harvesting
Matheus H. Zambianco, Adam Teixid\'o-Bonfill, Eduardo Mart\'in-Mart\'inez

TL;DR
This paper explores how cosmological expansion affects the interplay between entanglement harvesting and communication in particle detectors within de Sitter spacetime, revealing that expansion can suppress or enhance entanglement.
Contribution
It introduces a comparative analysis of detectors with different size behaviors in expanding universes, highlighting the impact of expansion on entanglement harvesting and communication.
Findings
Rapid expansion can suppress entanglement through destructive interference.
Detectors maintaining fixed proper size can still acquire significant entanglement.
Cosmological expansion qualitatively alters the balance between communication and harvesting.
Abstract
We investigate the interplay between genuine entanglement harvesting and communication mediated correlations for local particle detectors in expanding cosmological spacetimes. Focusing on a conformally coupled scalar field in de Sitter spacetime, we analyze how spacetime expansion induces interference between these two sources of entanglement when the detectors are in causal contact. We compare two physically distinct detector models: detectors whose spatial profile expands with the Universe, and detectors whose proper size remains fixed despite cosmological expansion. We find that the lack of time-reversal symmetry in cosmological settings generically leads to constructive or destructive interference between communication mediated correlations and harvested field correlations, dramatically affecting the entanglement that detectors can acquire. In particular, rapid expansion can…
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