Entanglement negativity in the multiverse
- 1. Laboratory for Quantum Gravity & Strings and Astrophysics, Cosmology & Gravity Center, Department of Mathematics & Applied Mathematics, University of Cape Town, Private Bag, Rondebosch 7701 (South Africa)
- 2. IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, Maria Diaz de Haro 3, 48013, Bilbao (Spain)
- 3. Department of Theoretical Physics and History of Science, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, 48080 Bilbao (Spain)
- 4. National Institute for Theoretical Physics, Private Bag X1, Matieland, 7602 (South Africa)
- 5. Department of Physics, Kobe University, Kobe 657-8501 (Japan)
Description
We explore quantum entanglement between two causally disconnected regions in the multiverse. We first consider a free massive scalar field, and compute the entanglement negativity between two causally separated open charts in de Sitter space. The qualitative feature of it turns out to be in agreement with that of the entanglement entropy. We then introduce two observers who determine the entanglement between two causally disconnected de Sitter spaces. When one of the observers remains constrained to a region of the open chart in a de Sitter space, we find that the scale dependence enters into the entanglement. We show that a state which is initially maximally entangled becomes more entangled or less entangled on large scales depending on the mass of the scalar field and recovers the initial entanglement in the small scale limit. We argue that quantum entanglement may provide some evidence for the existence of the multiverse
Availability note (English)
Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2015/03/015; Available from http://repo.scoap3.org/record/9514Additional details
Identifiers
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
- Journal Volume
- 2015
- Journal Issue
- 03
- Journal Page Range
- p. 15
- ISSN
- 1475-7516
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 47024063
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- DE SITTER SPACE; ENTROPY; QUANTUM COSMOLOGY; QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; SCALAR FIELDS; UNIVERSE
- Descriptors DEC
- COSMOLOGY; FIELD THEORIES; MATHEMATICAL SPACE; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; SPACE; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES
Optional Information
- Notes
- PUBLISHER-ID: JCAP03(2015)015; OAI: oai:repo.scoap3.org:9514
- Funding organization
- SCOAP3, CERN, Geneva (Switzerland)