Entanglement generation between field modes mediated by a fluctuating conducting wall

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.12338v1
• Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:08:00 GMT
• Title: Entanglement generation between field modes mediated by a fluctuating conducting wall
• Abstract summary: We consider a movable conducting plate of finite mass, between two fixed ones.<n>The movable wall is subjected to quantum fluctuations of its position.<n>We show that in both cases the fields in the two sub-cavities are entangled.
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• Abstract: We consider a movable conducting plate of finite mass, between two fixed ones, whose mechanical degrees of freedom are treated quantum-mechanically and bound to its equilibrium position by a harmonic potential. The movable wall is thus subjected to quantum fluctuations of its position. This creates a system of two sub-cavities separated by the movable fluctuating plate, and two massless one-dimensional scalar fields, one in each sub-cavity. This system is described by an appropriate generalization of the Law Hamiltonian. The presence of the movable wall yields an effective plate-fields interaction, as well as an effective interaction between the field modes. We obtain, at the second order in perturbation theory, the ground state of the interacting system and the reduced density operator of the fields in each sub-cavity by tracing out the wall's degrees of freedom. We calculate the entanglement between two field modes, one in each cavity, by evaluating analytically the negativity; we then evaluate numerically also the total multimode negativity. Our results show that in both cases the fields in the two sub-cavities are entangled, in contrast to the case in which the wall is fixed in space. We discuss the amount of the field entanglement present as a function of relevant physical parameters of the system such as the mass and oscillation frequency of the movable wall, its distance from the fixed walls and the frequencies of the field modes considered.

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