https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/s13360-025-06768-1
Regular Article
Quantum entanglement of two bosonic modes in de Sitter space
1
National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest-Magurele, Romania
2
Faculty of Physics, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
a
calamanciuc.madalin@theory.nipne.ro
Received:
7
April
2025
Accepted:
14
August
2025
Published online:
3
September
2025
The time evolution of Gaussian quantum entanglement of two bosonic modes associated with a scalar quantum field in de Sitter space and in interaction with a thermal reservoir is investigated in the framework of the theory of open systems based on completely positive quantum dynamical semigroups. We show that quantum entanglement strongly depends on the squeezing of the bimodal state, the parameters characterizing the thermal environment, the curvature parameter of de Sitter space, and the mass parameter. The thermal environment and the curvature have a destructive influence on the entanglement, whose survival time depends on the competition between the contrary effects provided by the squeezing of the bimodal state, the curvature, and the thermal bath. The entanglement is minimized for values 1/2 and 3/2 of the mass parameter, corresponding to the conformally coupled scalar field, respectively, minimally coupled massless field.
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