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arxiv: 2604.03633 · v3 · submitted 2026-04-04 · 🪐 quant-ph · gr-qc

Nonlocal advantage of quantum imaginarity in Schwarzchild spacetime

Bing Yu , Xiao-Yong Yang , Xiaoli Hu , Zhi-Xiang Jin , Xiaofen Huang This is my paper

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keywords quantum imaginarityHawking radiationSchwarzschild spacetimenonlocal advantageassisted distillationblack holesquantum information
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Hawking radiation suppresses the nonlocal advantage of quantum imaginarity in accessible Schwarzschild regions

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The paper examines how Hawking radiation affects quantum imaginarity in Schwarzschild spacetime. It establishes that the nonlocal advantage of quantum imaginarity is suppressed in physically accessible regions as Hawking temperature rises and may vanish entirely. The advantage remains absent in physically inaccessible regions throughout the parameter range. Assisted imaginarity distillation shows the opposite temperature trend: fidelity decreases in accessible regions but increases in inaccessible regions in a state-dependent way. These results point to distinct quantum operational behaviors on either side of the event horizon.

Core claim

Hawking radiation significantly affects nonlocal advantage of quantum imaginarity by suppressing it in the physically accessible region with increasing temperature until it may vanish, while it is absent in the inaccessible region. For assisted imaginarity distillation the assisted fidelity decreases with temperature in the accessible region and increases in the inaccessible region, depending on the initial state.

What carries the argument

Nonlocal advantage of quantum imaginarity (NAQI) together with assisted imaginarity distillation, computed for quantum modes in Schwarzschild spacetime after separating them into physically accessible and inaccessible regions via the event horizon.

If this is right

  • NAQI can be driven to zero by raising the Hawking temperature in accessible regions.
  • Assisted distillation of imaginarity becomes more effective in inaccessible regions at higher temperatures.
  • Quantum imaginarity resources display sharply different behavior across the event horizon under the Hawking effect.
  • These temperature trends apply directly to quantum information processing near black holes.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Analog gravity experiments simulating horizons could test the temperature dependence of NAQI.
  • Similar region-dependent responses may appear for other quantum resources such as coherence when studied in curved spacetime.
  • Hawking temperature might act as a tunable control for imaginarity-based quantum tasks in strong gravitational fields.

Load-bearing premise

That the nonlocal advantage of quantum imaginarity and assisted imaginarity distillation remain well-defined and computable when standard quantum-information tools are applied to quantum fields in Schwarzschild spacetime.

What would settle it

A calculation showing that the nonlocal advantage of quantum imaginarity stays constant or increases with Hawking temperature in the accessible region would falsify the reported suppression.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.03633 by Bing Yu, Xiaofen Huang, Xiaoli Hu, Xiao-Yong Yang, Zhi-Xiang Jin.

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Figure 2. Figure 2: FIG. 2: NAQI gap [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 1. Figure 1: FIG. 1: NAQI gap [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: FIG. 4: NAQI gap [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: FIG. 3: NAQI gap [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: shows the assisted imaginarity fidelity Fd(ρ ABout ) and Fd(ρ ABin ) as functions of δ and p. As displayed in panels (b) and (d), both quantities exhibit a symmetry under p ↔ 1 − p at fixed δ, which originates from the vanishing of |1 − 2p| at p = 0.5. This symmetry leads to a nonmonotonic dependence on p. For generic δ, the fidelity first decreases and then increases as p varies from 0 to 1. For the speci… view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: FIG. 6: Assisted imaginarity fidelity [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_6.png] view at source ↗
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Black hole spacetimes provide a natural setting for quantum systems in curved spacetime, where effects such as Hawking radiation arise from event horizons. In this work, we investigate the impact of the Hawking effect on quantum imaginarity in Schwarzschild spacetime, focusing on nonlocal advantage of quantum imaginarity (NAQI) and assisted imaginarity distillation. For NAQI, it is significantly affected by Hawking radiation, exhibiting a pronounced difference between physically accessible and inaccessible regions. It is suppressed in the physically accessible region with increasing Hawking temperature and may vanish, while remaining absent in the physically inaccessible region across the parameter regime. For assisted imaginarity distillation, the Hawking effect modifies the assisted fidelity in a state-dependent manner. In the physically accessible region, the fidelity generally decreases with increasing temperature, indicating reduced distillation capability, whereas the physically inaccessible region exhibits the opposite monotonic trend, indicating enhanced distillation capability. These results highlight distinct operational behaviors of physically accessible and inaccessible regions under relativistic effects, providing insight into quantum imaginarity in curved spacetime.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper studies the effects of Hawking radiation on quantum imaginarity in Schwarzschild spacetime, with emphasis on the nonlocal advantage of quantum imaginarity (NAQI) and assisted imaginarity distillation for two-qubit states. Using Bogoliubov transformations between Schwarzschild and Kruskal modes, it reports that NAQI is suppressed in the physically accessible region with rising Hawking temperature and can vanish, while remaining absent in the inaccessible region; assisted distillation fidelity decreases with temperature in the accessible region but increases in the inaccessible region.

Significance. If the calculations hold, the work extends quantum resource theories to curved spacetime by showing how Hawking effects produce qualitatively different behaviors for imaginarity in accessible versus inaccessible regions. The approach relies on standard mode-mixing techniques without introducing new ad-hoc parameters, and the state-dependent trends in distillation fidelity offer concrete, falsifiable predictions for relativistic quantum information.

major comments (2)
  1. [Results section (NAQI calculation)] The suppression of NAQI to zero in the accessible region is stated as possible but the manuscript does not identify the critical Hawking temperature or the explicit form of the NAQI witness (e.g., the imaginary-part-based measure) that reaches zero; this threshold should be derived from the reduced density matrix after tracing over the inaccessible modes.
  2. [Assisted distillation subsection] For assisted imaginarity distillation the opposite monotonic trends are reported, yet the fidelity expressions are not written out; without the explicit dependence on the thermal factor (1 + e^{-ω/T})^{-1} it is difficult to verify that the inaccessible-region increase is not an artifact of the chosen basis or the particular initial state.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Title and abstract] The title and abstract spell the metric as 'Schwarzchild' (missing 's'); correct to 'Schwarzschild' throughout.
  2. [Setup] The initial two-qubit state on which all numerics are performed should be stated explicitly (e.g., |Φ^+> or a parameterized family) rather than left implicit.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the positive evaluation and the detailed comments, which help improve the clarity of our results. We address each point below and will revise the manuscript accordingly.

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  1. Referee: [Results section (NAQI calculation)] The suppression of NAQI to zero in the accessible region is stated as possible but the manuscript does not identify the critical Hawking temperature or the explicit form of the NAQI witness (e.g., the imaginary-part-based measure) that reaches zero; this threshold should be derived from the reduced density matrix after tracing over the inaccessible modes.

    Authors: We agree that an explicit derivation of the critical Hawking temperature is needed. In the revised manuscript we will compute the NAQI witness directly from the reduced density matrix obtained after tracing over the inaccessible modes and report the precise temperature value at which the witness vanishes in the accessible region. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Assisted distillation subsection] For assisted imaginarity distillation the opposite monotonic trends are reported, yet the fidelity expressions are not written out; without the explicit dependence on the thermal factor (1 + e^{-ω/T})^{-1} it is difficult to verify that the inaccessible-region increase is not an artifact of the chosen basis or the particular initial state.

    Authors: We accept the suggestion to include the explicit expressions. The revised version will present the full assisted-distillation fidelity formulas, explicitly displaying their dependence on the thermal factor (1 + e^{-ω/T})^{-1}, thereby allowing direct verification that the reported monotonic trends hold independently of the chosen basis and initial state. revision: yes

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full rationale

The paper applies standard Bogoliubov transformations between Schwarzschild and Kruskal modes to an initial two-qubit state, then computes reduced density matrices for accessible and inaccessible regions before directly evaluating the NAQI witness and assisted fidelity. These quantities are obtained from explicit matrix elements and thermal factors in the mode mixing, without any reduction to self-definitions, fitted parameters renamed as predictions, or load-bearing self-citations. The observed suppression in the accessible region and absence in the inaccessible region follow directly from the structure of the transformed states and the chosen basis, making the central claims independent of the inputs by construction.

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