Abstract
The elaboration of a general formalism on quantum spin entanglement in curved space–time is presented by a system of two particles described by wave packets moving in a gravitational field (GF). This formulation allows us to study different models in curved space–time. In this work, the non-commutative Reissner–Nordström model is considered. The spin entanglement of a system of two spin 1/2 particles is discussed. With particularity that contains multiple and various physical parameters, allowing for a detailed study of this purely quantum phenomenon in different frames of space and geometry or both at the same time.
Keywords: Non-commutative space, Quantum information, Curved space, Spin Entanglement
Introduction
During the last decade, great interest has been devoted to quantum entanglement and information theory [1–5]. The spin quantum entanglement of a bipartite system plays an important role in most physical systems, such as condensed matter. Recently, the effect of relativistic motion on the entanglement correlation of quantum spin states has been the focus of many physicists, where the spin entanglement of massive particles can change under Lorentz transformations. The entangled momentum of rotation in a flat space–time is discussed by Peres, Scudo and Terno [6], in the same year Gingrich and Adami [7] showed that the entanglement between the spins is affected by the Wigner rotation. This latter in special relativity is known as the product of two Lorentz boost in different directions. Furthermore, this study is extended to a curved space–time [8–13], where Terashima and Ueda [8, 9] studied the EPR (Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen) correlation and Bell’s inequality in the Schwarzschild space–time. By considering accelerated particles in the gravitational field (GF), they showed that the acceleration and the gravity deteriorate the perfect anti-correlation of a pair of EPR spins in the same direction. On the other hand, in [9] they showed when the spin entropy of a spin-1/2 particle moving in the gravitational field can be generated. Considering that if the spin state of the particle is pure at one point in space–time, it becomes mixed at another point. Because the local inertial frames of reference at different points are different in general. Moreover, they showed that the spin entropy of particles in a circular motion is quickly incremented close to the event horizon of the Schwarzschild black hole. Also, the spin entanglement can be more powerful against changes brought about by motion in the singlet state than in the triplet state [10].
The very early quantum space–time model based on non-commutative (NC) algebra was suggested by Snyder in 1949 [14] to ameliorate short-distance singularities in quantum field theory. This idea was the motivation behind studying non-commutative space with cosmological models [15–17], where NC Seiberg Witten space–time has played an important role in studying many phenomena in particle physics and cosmology [18–24], where some authors [25, 26] have suggested some non-commutative models in classical cosmology to explain the accelerated expansion of our universe, and NC opened the door for a new explanation of dark matter and dark energy as well as the cosmic microwave background (C.M.B) and its anisotropies [27–32].
Emerging of the entanglement entropy concept and its application to black hole entropy issues [33, 34], another exciting area has attracted many physicists: the relationship between the structure of space–time and entanglement. Where it was considered, the non-commutativity can induce entanglement [35–37]. Abhishek Muhuri and others [38] showed that even in non-commutative space, the entanglement is generated only if the harmonic oscillator is anisotropic.
The model we present here is one that tries to understand quantum entanglement behavior, which can be a better alternative to experiment or to verify the effects of the NC space on quantum entanglement, as was done in studies [39, 40] the effects of the passing gravitational wave on the quantum states of a system of N spin-1/2 particles have been investigated by Ye Yeo et al.
Based on previous work, this article discusses the effect of the gravitational field (near or far from the black hole) on the quantum spin entanglement (QSE) of a bipartite system. The system is described by packets of centroid waves as a momentum representation [11]. Using the idea of local inertial frames, both the increasing speed of the centroid and the shape of the gravitational field cause a Wigner rotation that influences the wave packet. As a result of this fact, we try to extend our study to a metric or to different metrics in general. In order to be able to study the effects of both the GF shape and various parameters of the black hole, either in a commutative framework of geometry or even non-commutative. In Sect. 2, we present a general mathematical formalism. In Sect. 3, the non-commutative Reissner–Nordström space–time is considered. In Sect. 4, we compare the behavior of entanglement in singlet and triplet state, and in Sect. 5, we draw our conclusion by focusing on the SE of the centroid packet and how it is affected by various parameters like the acceleration of the centroid, the distance from a massive body, and the NC of space.
Mathematical formalism
In order to study the spin of a particle in curved space–time, one has to use an inertial local frame at each point. This can be done at the tangent at a point of curved space–time using the vierbein (or tetrad) ( (resp.) is a curved (resp. flat) index) defined by:
| 1 |
Where and ) are the curved and Minkowski space–time metric, respectively. Let us introduce one fermionic particle with a 4-momentum and spin at some point of the space–time. If we move from one point to another, this state becomes (in a local frame) [10, 11]:
| 2 |
Where is the Lorentz transformation matrix and is the Wigner rotation operator corresponding to denotes the two-dimensional representation of the Wigner rotation operator [41].
Let us consider a system of two non-interacting spin 1/2 particles, where its center of mass system can be described by an initial wave packet given in a local frame by [11] [9]:
| 3 |
With the normalization condition:
| 4 |
Here, and are 4-momentum of the particles 1 and 2, respectively. are wave functions determining momentum and spin distribution, It can be used to express momentum entanglement, spin entanglement, and even entanglement between spins and momenta. Now, it is easy to show that when the system reaches another point of the inertial local frame, the wave packet becomes like this:
| 5 |
Where is a unitary operator, are the centroid location at a final and initial point, respectively. The Wigner rotation operator can have the following formula [9]
| 6 |
here is the time-ordering operator, proper time and is a matrix whose elements are given by
| 7 |
Where = , with being the mass of the particle. Where the infinitesimal Lorentz transformation matrix elements have the form:
| 8 |
With:
| 9 |
And:
| 10 |
Here, is a spin connection, where represents its change along the direction of the 4-vector velocity of the centroid, is the four-velocity of the centroid, stands for the covariant derivative and the 4-vector acceleration produced by a classical force as measured in the local frame which is given by
| 11 |
To mention where comes from, let us consider a system of two non-interacting spin 1/2 particles (wave packet) whose center of mass is described by an equatorial plane with . The motion has a radius with constant speed . After obtaining a central force motion, the components of the centroid 4-momentum in the local inertial frame are given by [12]
| 12 |
Where is the Lorentz factor.
Now, in order to measure entanglement between 2 particles in a gravitational field, let us consider the following space–time where the metric has the form
| 13 |
are arbitrary functions that have a linear relation with the coordinates or , let us make a diagonal choice of the tetrad
| 14 |
Thus, the non-vanishing spin connection elements are
| 15 |
Where and . Furthermore, the non-vanishing components and , for a circular motion and constant angular velocity on the equatorial plane where are given by
| 16 |
| 17 |
And
| 18 |
It is important to mention that the two non-vanishing components of the 4-vector velocity and can be rewritten as
| 19 |
Where is the rapidity in the local inertial frame such that .
To quantify the spin entanglement of the two particles system, we use the Wootters concurrence [42–44] for the mixed state defined by
| 20 |
Where are the square roots of the eigenvalues of the matrix with: , here is the Pauli matrix, and is the state density matrix: , where take this following expression [11]
| 21 |
Where is one of the Bell states; this choice allows us to assume a maximum spin entanglement, is a normalized function which is defined by
| 22 |
Where is width. To get more simplification of calculations, let , , .
If are positive real numbers, the entanglement can be quantified by the spin entanglement defined as [11]
| 23 |
Where:
| 24 |
Equation (20) can be shown to have the following expression [10], in the case of spin singlet state in curved space–time
| 25 |
In the case of the spin triplet state in curved space–time
| 26 |
With
| 27 |
here is a shorthand notation for ( is the only non-vanishing component of where , is propre time). The two-dimensional representation of the Wigner rotation matrix is
| 28 |
Where is the 2-component of the angular momentum operator. By using (7), (8) and (25), can be rewritten as
| 29 |
Where:.
Spin entanglement in Reissner–Nordström non-commutative space–time
We consider the Reissner–Nordström metric for a charged non-rotating black hole in commutative space–time. It is given by [45]
| 30 |
and are mass and charge, respectively, and is the time coordinate, is the radial coordinate, are the spherical angles, the Schwarzschild radius of the body given by where does not represent a singularity, but in this case it is only a parameter. And the new singularities are
There is an external event horizon at The internal Cauchy horizon is the other horizon .
The extremal case is defined as the limiting case where and .
Following ref [46], the Seiberg Witten vierbein in a non-commutative gauge gravity is given by
| 31 |
Where
| 32 |
And
| 33 |
Where is non-commutativity anti-symmetric matrix elements defined as
| 34 |
And are the non-commutative space–time coordinates operators. Here, (resp.) is the commutative spin connection (resp. covariant derivative) and , where is the Riemann tensor. The commutative space–time vierbein and the Minkowski metric are denoted by and , respectively. The non-commutative metric is defined by
| 35 |
Where " ∗ " is the Moyal star product [47], straightforward calculations using Maple 13 and setting , (in the case , with choosing the only non-vanishing components of the NC parameter ) one has
| 36 |
We have two singularities
Figure 1 displays the variation of the entanglement as a function of the NC parameter , for a non-charged black hole and fixed . Notice that if increases, decreases. Thus, plays an important role in the value changing of entanglement. In fact, as it was pointed out in ref [46], the NC parameter can be considered as a magnetic field contributing to the matter density and therefore affecting the curvature of the space–time through its contribution to GF. Consequently if increases, the GF increases and the information decreases. Including the contribution of NC of space–time, it generates additional terms proportional to . In fact, the gravitational potential will be of the form
| 37 |
Where
| 38 |
Fig. 1.

as a function of λ for fixed
The behavior of the entanglement depends strongly on the sign of . Considering and negative:
If , the term dominates. Since , and if increases the GF decreases leading to an increase in (as is the case in Fig. 2).
If , then dominates and its sign will determine the behavior of as a function of . If GF increases and decreases then we return to the case in Fig. 1.
Fig. 2.

as a function of λ for fixed
Figure 3 represents the variation of as a function of for fixed (the case of commutative Schwarzschild space–time). Notice that we will reproduce the same behavior as in ref [10].
Fig. 3.

The variation of as a function of for fixed
Figure 4 shows the variation of as a function of for fixed (the case of commutative Reissner–Nordstrom space–time). Notice that the same behavior as in ref [11] is obtained.
Fig. 4.

The variation of as a function of for fixed
Figure 5 shows the variation of as a function of and fixed ; this case is the Schwarzschild black hole in non-commutative space–time.
Fig. 5.

as a function of and fixed
Figure 6 represents the variation of as a function of for fixed it is the case of Reissner–Nordstrom Black Hole in non-commutative space–time. Notice that far from the oscillatory behavior region, when (or ) increases, the GF decreases until reaching a saturation value () where is maximal. Notice that for smaller values of ( near black hole singularity) where the gravitational field is infinite, the entanglement is minimal. If we go far from the singularity ( increases), the gravitational field decreases and therefore the information increases and thus the entanglement. The oscillatory behavior disappears when we enter the stability region where . The number of picks and minima depends strongly on the values of the various parameters and . Concerning the non-commutativity effect on the , it is clear from Eq. (37) that for smaller values of , as increases the gravitational field becomes more important (increases) and therefore decreases. For larger values of , the effect is almost negligible since the terms in order of decrease faster than the commutative terms in order of . Notice also that increases, the GF increases (the term dominates at larger value of ). Thus, the NC effect on the becomes more important for charged black hole than neutral ones (if the charge increases, decreases).
Fig. 6.

The variation of as a function of for fixed
Table 1 summarizes the effect of the black hole charge on the . It is worth mentioning that in order to keep the perturbative expansion with respect to reliable, one must have
| 39 |
Where and , this implies new constraints on the space parameters .
Table 1.
Illustrative values of as a function of for
| 2 | 0.64694 | 0.6072 |
| 4 | 0.664 | 0.6567 |
| 5 | 0.6644 | 0.6626 |
| 6 | 0.6646 | 0.6641 |
Comparison between singlet and triplet state of entanglement
To gain a thorough understanding, we compare the entanglement behavior in the triplet and singlet states, by using concurrence.
Figure 7 shows how the concurrence varies as a function of for fixed values of in singlet and triplet state, respectively. We found the same behavior with Fig. 6, where for smaller values of near the black hole horizon), the gravitational field is infinite, the entanglement is minimal (). If we go far away from the singularity, ( increases) the gravitational field decreases, so the information increases until a saturated bound of the maximal entanglement (). By monitoring both of the curves, we notice that in singlet state when is at the value of takes the value of . While in triplet state it gives .
Fig. 7.

The variation of as a function of for fixed
Figure 8 displays the variation of the concurrence as a function of by fixing and for both state singlet and triplet, the concurrence is a decreasing function. This is due to the fact that the gravitational potential increases, as we mentioned in Fig. 2. Take note of this for singlet state when and triplet state when .
Fig. 8.

The variation of as a function of for fixed
As it is displayed in Figs. 7 and 8, we can say that the information (entanglement) for the first is greater or equal to the second, and that the singlet state is more resistant to changes induced by motion than the triplet state, this is due to the fact that for the single state, there is a minimum number of parameters and as mentioned before, gravity decreases the information (the effect of gravity on the single state is less than that of the triplet state).
Conclusions
Throughout this paper, we have studied the spin entanglement of two particles system quantified by entanglement . Regarding the non-commutative case (as shown in Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6), the variation of the quantum entanglement as a function of , the NC parameter and the black hole charge y is discussed. We have noticed that the NC effect on becomes more important in a charged black hole, so the behavior of depends on the black hole’s characteristics and not only on the kind of particles (bosons or fermions) [48]. We found as NC parameter increases, decreases, as if NC parameter is playing the role of gravity. On the other hand, as we mentioned in the introduction, NC parameter was considered as having antigravity properties (quintessence, dark energy, etc.), so NC parameter can induce two terms with opposing signs and that was confirmed in [48, 49]
Acknowledgements
We are very grateful to the Algerian Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research and DGRSDT for the financial support.
Footnotes
Prof N. Mebarki deceased due to covid 19, last month
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