Decoherence and loss of entanglement in acoustic black holes

We study the process of decoherence in acoustic black holes. We focus on the ion trap model proposed by Horstmann et al., but the formalism is general to any experimental implementation. For that particular setup, we compute the decoherence time for the experimental parameters that they proposed. We...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Lombardo, Fernando Cesar, Turiaci, Gustavo J.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2012
País:Argentina
Institución:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Repositorio:CONICET Digital (CONICET)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/56760
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11336/56760
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Ion Traps
Hawking Radiation
Decoherence
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Sumario:We study the process of decoherence in acoustic black holes. We focus on the ion trap model proposed by Horstmann et al., but the formalism is general to any experimental implementation. For that particular setup, we compute the decoherence time for the experimental parameters that they proposed. We find that a quantum to classical transition occurs during the measurement, and we propose improved parameters to avoid such a feature. We also study the entanglement between the Hawking-pair phonons for an acoustic black hole while in contact with a reservoir, through the quantum correlations, showing that they remain strongly correlated for small enough times and temperatures. © 2012 American Physical Society.