Fermionic Unruh effect revisited: Entanglement and correlation dynamics under symmetric transformations
Abstract
A uniformly accelerated observer perceives the Minkowski vacuum as a thermal bath, so acceleration acts as a noise channel on correlations shared with an inertial partner. For a Dirac field in the standard treatment, the resulting map is a one-sided amplitude-damping channel, and entanglement and quantum discord survive at infinite acceleration. We introduce a symmetric Unruh-like map in which the vacuum and the one-particle state both exchange amplitude with the inaccessible Rindler region; for a Bell state it yields a bit-flip channel whose flip probability is the Fermi-Dirac occupation at the Unruh temperature. Using negativity, mutual information, and all six pairwise quantum discords, we find that the entanglement and discord between the inertial observer and the accessible mode vanish together at infinite acceleration, leaving only one bit of classical correlation. These results show that the fate of quantum correlations in noninertial frames depends on the structure of the Minkowski-Rindler map.
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BibTeX
@misc{monem2026fermionic,
title = {{Fermionic Unruh effect revisited: Entanglement and correlation dynamics under symmetric transformations}},
author = {Omid Yahyayi Monem and Hosein Mohammadzadeh},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.38387},
eprint = {2610.38387},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.38387},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Fermionic Unruh effect revisited: Entanglement and correlation dynamics under symmetric transformations
AU - Omid Yahyayi Monem
AU - Hosein Mohammadzadeh
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/28
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.38387
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.38387
AB - A uniformly accelerated observer perceives the Minkowski vacuum as a thermal bath, so acceleration acts as a noise channel on correlations shared with an inertial partner. For a Dirac field in the standard treatment, the resulting map is a one-sided amplitude-damping channel, and entanglement and quantum discord survive at infinite acceleration. We introduce a symmetric Unruh-like map in which the vacuum and the one-particle state both exchange amplitude with the inaccessible Rindler region; for a Bell state it yields a bit-flip channel whose flip probability is the Fermi-Dirac occupation at the Unruh temperature. Using negativity, mutual information, and all six pairwise quantum discords, we find that the entanglement and discord between the inertial observer and the accessible mode vanish together at infinite acceleration, leaving only one bit of classical correlation. These results show that the fate of quantum correlations in noninertial frames depends on the structure of the Minkowski-Rindler map.
ER -