Schwinger correlation of Dirac fields in accelerated frames

Abstract

We study the Schwinger correlation of Dirac fields in the noninertial frames under the influences of both constant and pulsed electric fields. We use both the entanglement negativity and quantum mutual information between particle and antiparticle as the indicator of the Schwinger correlation observed by the accelerated observers. We find that the Schwinger correlation in the inertial frames is the largest. With the increase of acceleration of the observers, the Schwinger correlation becomes smaller and smaller, but does not vanish in the limit of infinite acceleration. For the given acceleration, the Schwinger correlation is a nonmonotonic function of the electric field intensity, and there is an optimal value of electric field intensity for which the Schwinger correlation is the largest. In the case of pulsed electric fields, the Schwinger correlation is also the nonmonotonic function of pulsed width, which suggests the existence of optimal pulsed width for observing Schwinger correlation.