How cosmological expansion affects communication between distant quantum systems

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Main Authors: Lapponi, Alessio, Luongo, Orlando, Mancini, Stefano
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author Lapponi, Alessio
Luongo, Orlando
Mancini, Stefano
author_facet Lapponi, Alessio
Luongo, Orlando
Mancini, Stefano
contents A quantum communication protocol between harmonic oscillator detectors, interacting with a quantum field, is developed in a cosmological expanding background. The aim is to see if the quantum effects arising in an expanding universe, such as the cosmological particle production, could facilitate the communication between two distant parts or if they provide an additive noisy effect. By considering a perfect cosmic fluid, the resulting expansion turns out to increase the classical capacity of the protocol. This increasing occurs for all the cosmological expansions unless the latter is sharpened just before the receiver's detector interacts with the field. Moreover, the classical capacity turns out to be sensible to the barotropic parameter $w$ of the perfect fluid and to the coupling between the field and the scalar curvature $ξ$. As a consequence, by performing this protocol, one can achieve information about the cosmological dynamics and its coupling with a background quantum field.
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spellingShingle How cosmological expansion affects communication between distant quantum systems
Lapponi, Alessio
Luongo, Orlando
Mancini, Stefano
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Quantum Physics
A quantum communication protocol between harmonic oscillator detectors, interacting with a quantum field, is developed in a cosmological expanding background. The aim is to see if the quantum effects arising in an expanding universe, such as the cosmological particle production, could facilitate the communication between two distant parts or if they provide an additive noisy effect. By considering a perfect cosmic fluid, the resulting expansion turns out to increase the classical capacity of the protocol. This increasing occurs for all the cosmological expansions unless the latter is sharpened just before the receiver's detector interacts with the field. Moreover, the classical capacity turns out to be sensible to the barotropic parameter $w$ of the perfect fluid and to the coupling between the field and the scalar curvature $ξ$. As a consequence, by performing this protocol, one can achieve information about the cosmological dynamics and its coupling with a background quantum field.
title How cosmological expansion affects communication between distant quantum systems
topic General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.02351