Nonlocality and entanglement via the Unruh effect

Modeling the qubit by a two-level semiclassical detector coupled to a massless scalar field, we investigate how the Unruh effect affects the nonlocality and entanglement of two-qubit and three-qubit states when one of the entangled qubits is accelerated. Two distinct differences with the results of free field model in non-inertial frames are (i) for the two-qubit state, the CHSH inequality cannot be violated for sufficiently large but finite acceleration, furthermore, the concurrence will experience “sudden death”; and (ii) for the three-qubit state, not only does the entanglement vanish in the infinite acceleration limit, but also the Svetlichny inequality cannot be violated in the case of large acceleration.

► We compare entanglement and nonlocality of two-level detector model with that of free field model in noninertial frame. ► Two-qubit state entanglement experiences “sudden death”. ► Three-qubit state entanglement vanishes in the infinite acceleration limit. ► Bipartite nonlocal correlations vanish for finite values of the acceleration. ► Tripartite nonlocal correlations vanish for finite values of the acceleration as well.