Basis-independent coherence and its distribution in de Sitter spacetime

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Main Authors: Elghaayda, Samira, Rahman, Atta ur, Mansour, Mostafa
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author Elghaayda, Samira
Rahman, Atta ur
Mansour, Mostafa
author_facet Elghaayda, Samira
Rahman, Atta ur
Mansour, Mostafa
contents Quantum coherence in curved spacetime offers a fresh window into the interplay between gravity, thermality, and quantum resources. While previous work has shown that Markovian evolution can generate entanglement and other nonclassical correlations in de Sitter backgrounds, the basis-dependent nature of coherence has so far limited its unambiguous interpretation. Here, we introduce a basis-independent framework to quantify not only the total coherence of two comoving detectors, but also its collective and localized contributions, and we trace how each of these decomposed measures varies with the inverse of Gibbons-Hawking temperature. By treating the detectors as open quantum systems interacting with a massless scalar field in the Bunch-Davies and squeezed alpha-vacua, we find that non-thermal squeezing substantially enhances extractable coherence, even under strong thermal effects. Our results demonstrate how basis-independent coherence in de Sitter spacetime can serve as a robust resource for relativistic quantum information protocols.
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spellingShingle Basis-independent coherence and its distribution in de Sitter spacetime
Elghaayda, Samira
Rahman, Atta ur
Mansour, Mostafa
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Quantum Physics
Quantum coherence in curved spacetime offers a fresh window into the interplay between gravity, thermality, and quantum resources. While previous work has shown that Markovian evolution can generate entanglement and other nonclassical correlations in de Sitter backgrounds, the basis-dependent nature of coherence has so far limited its unambiguous interpretation. Here, we introduce a basis-independent framework to quantify not only the total coherence of two comoving detectors, but also its collective and localized contributions, and we trace how each of these decomposed measures varies with the inverse of Gibbons-Hawking temperature. By treating the detectors as open quantum systems interacting with a massless scalar field in the Bunch-Davies and squeezed alpha-vacua, we find that non-thermal squeezing substantially enhances extractable coherence, even under strong thermal effects. Our results demonstrate how basis-independent coherence in de Sitter spacetime can serve as a robust resource for relativistic quantum information protocols.
title Basis-independent coherence and its distribution in de Sitter spacetime
topic General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02581