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April 16, 2026Nuclear Physics B0 citationsOpen Access

Mutual information harvesting for circularly accelerated detectors

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MQMingkun QuanRLRunhu LiZZZixu Zhao

Key Points

  • The study explores how mutual information changes between two circularly accelerated detectors interacting with massless scalar fields.
  • Analyzed two circularly accelerated detectors with a shared rotational axis.
  • Investigated effects of varying interdetector separation and acceleration on mutual information.
  • Examined mutual information behavior near a reflecting boundary.
  • Mutual information shows oscillatory behavior at large acceleration and small radius.
  • Increased acceleration generally leads to higher peak mutual information for fixed radius.
  • Oscillations in mutual information intensify near the boundary due to coherent superpositions.

Abstract

We investigate the mutual information harvesting of two circularly accelerated detectors that interact with the massless scalar fields near a reflecting boundary. We consider that the two detectors share a common rotational axis with the same acceleration and trajectory radius. As the interdetector separation increases, the mutual information may exhibit oscillatory behavior at large acceleration and small radius. For a fixed radius, a larger acceleration leads to a larger peak value of the mutual information. Near the boundary, the mutual information may oscillate and the maximum can be obtained. As the acceleration increases, the mutual information in a small interdetector separation first increases and then decreases. For an intermediate interdetector separation, the mutual information may oscillate with the increase of acceleration. For a not large interdetector separation, when we take large acceleration and small radius, as the energy gap increases, the mutual information first decreases, then oscillates, and finally goes to zero. The combination of large acceleration and small radius corresponds to the fast rotation, which modifies the vacuum fluctuations of the field, leading to the oscillatory behavior. Furthermore, the oscillation intensifies near the boundary, which indicates that it is related to the coherent superposition of boundary reflections.

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Quan et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69e07c1e2f7e8953b7cbd833https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2026.117454
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