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Analytic Tools for Harvesting Magic Resource in Curved Spacetime

Quantum Physics 2025-08-25 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

The quantum vacuum is not really empty; it is a reservoir of operationally accessible non-classical resources. Understanding how to extract these resources to fuel information processing is a core objective in quantum technologies and lies at the heart of relativistic quantum information (RQI). While earlier studies of quantum resource harvesting protocols relied primarily on numerical methods, we present, for the first time, exact analytic results for the transition probability and coherence of a qutrit Unruh-DeWitt detector interacting with a scalar field in anti-de Sitter spacetime of arbitrary dimension. Leveraging these results, we analytically investigate the harvesting of non-stabilizerness and demonstrate that stronger spacetime curvature and higher dimensionality significantly suppress the amount of extractable magic resource from the vacuum. Our analytic framework is readily applicable to other scenarios, laying the groundwork for further analytic studies in RQI.

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@article{arxiv.2508.16466,
  title  = {Analytic Tools for Harvesting Magic Resource in Curved Spacetime},
  author = {Jiayue Yang and Dyuman Bhattacharya and Ming Zhang and Robert B. Mann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.16466},
  year   = {2025}
}

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8+7 pages, 2 figures, comments are welcome, submitted for publication on June 10, 2025

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