Quantum discord amplification of fermionic systems in an accelerated frame

Abstract

Quantum discord of fermionic systems in the relativistic regime, that is, beyond the single-mode approximation (SMA) is investigated. It is shown that quantum discord is amplified for the fermionic system in non-inertial frames irrespective of the choice of state, region and level of mixedness. This ensures that the phenomenon of amplification can actually happen in the relativistic regime. It is seen that quantum discord converges at infinite acceleration limit, which means that it becomes independent of $$q_{R}$$qR (Unruh modes) beyond SMA. This implies that most of the tensor product structures already used in the literature to compute quantum field correlations in relativistic quantum information cannot give rise to physical results. The dynamics of quantum discord is investigated under amplitude damping, depolarizing and flipping channels. The vanishing behavior of quantum discord is seen for higher level of decoherence in the infinite acceleration limit. The depolarizing channel dominantly affects the fermionic quantum discord as compared to the amplitude damping channel. It means that the depolarizing channel has most destructive influence on the discord of the fermionic systems. Moreover, the effect of environment on the discord is much stronger than that of the acceleration of non-inertial frames.