Multipartite quantum coherence under electromagnetic vacuum fluctuation with a boundary

Abstract We investigate the dynamics of multipartite quantum coherence (QC) for accelerated detector qubit coupled with fluctuating electromagnetic field by presence of a perfectly reflecting boundary. We firstly derive the master equation that the detector evolution obeys. We find that without boundary, QC declines under the impact of Unruh thermal effect and vacuum fluctuation. However, with a boundary, the degradation, floating and protection of QC are closely related to boundary effect, detector polarization and acceleration. The presence of boundary can effectively protect QC under the influence of vacuum fluctuation and Unruh thermal effect in some certain conditions and give us more freedom of adjusting the QC behaviors. Besides, it is shown that the QC of W state manifests better robustness than that of GHZ state under the influence of the vacuum fluctuation and acceleration.