Entanglement structure of quantum fields through local probes
Quantum Physics
2023-05-15 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
We present a framework to study the entanglement structure of a quantum field theory inspired by the formalism of particle detectors in relativistic quantum information. This framework can in principle be used to faithfully capture entanglement in a QFT between arbitrary-shaped regions of spacetime without encountering UV divergences, bypassing many of the issues typically present in other approaches. Our results also establish the limits of the efficiency of entanglement harvesting, and may also be used to motivate an operational definition of entanglement between spacetime subregions in field theory.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2301.08775,
title = {Entanglement structure of quantum fields through local probes},
author = {Bruno de S. L. Torres and Kelly Wurtz and José Polo-Gómez and Eduardo Martín-Martínez},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.08775},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
22 pages, 7 figures. RevTeX 4.2. V2 updated to match published version