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Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 270402 (2002) [4 pages]

Quantum Entanglement of Moving Bodies

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Robert M. Gingrich and Christoph Adami
Quantum Computing Technologies Group, Jet Propulsion Laboratory 126-347, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91109-8099

Received 21 June 2002; revised 3 September 2002; published 16 December 2002

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We study the properties of quantum entanglement in moving frames, and show that, because spin and momentum become mixed when viewed by a moving observer, the entanglement between the spins of a pair of particles is not invariant. We give an example of a pair, fully spin entangled in the rest frame, which has its spin entanglement reduced in all other frames. Similarly, we show that there are pairs whose spin entanglement increases from zero to maximal entanglement when boosted. While spin and momentum entanglement separately are not Lorentz invariant, the joint entanglement of the wave function is.

© 2002 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.270402
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.270402
PACS:
03.65.Ud, 03.30.+p, 03.67.–a