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In this paper, we investigate the quantum coherence extraction {between} two accelerating Unruh-DeWitt detectors, coupling to a scalar field in $(3+1)$-dimensional Minkowski spacetime. We find that quantum coherence as a nonclassical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-11 Jiafan Wang , Jingjun Zhang , Jun Feng

We review Unruh-DeWitt detectors and other models of detector-field interaction in a relativistic quantum field theory setting as a tool for extracting detector-detector, field-field and detector-field correlation functions of interest in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-16 B. L. Hu , Shih-Yuin Lin , Jorma Louko

We study the protocol of entanglement harvesting when two local probes couple to the vacuum of a real scalar quantum field with arbitrary temporal profiles. We use a Hermite expansion to efficiently compute smeared field propagators in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Marcos Morote-Balboa , T. Rick Perche

We explore the crucial role of relative space-time positioning between the two detectors in an operational two-party entanglement-harvesting protocol. Specifically we show that the protocol is robust if imprecision in spatial positioning…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-25 Eduardo Martin-Martinez , Barry C. Sanders

Entanglement is a key resource for quantum information technologies ranging from quantum sensing to quantum computing. Conventionally, the entanglement between two coupled qubits is established at the time scale of the inverse of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-12 Zeng-Zhao Li , Weijian Chen , Maryam Abbasi , Kater W. Murch , K. Birgitta Whaley

In this work, we propose to investigate the information behavior of quantum systems through accelerated detectors quadratically coupled with a massless scalar field. In addition, we made detailed comparisons with the case of linear…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-26 P. H. M. Barros , P. R. S. Carvalho , H. A. S. Costa

Modeling the qubit by a two-level semiclassical detector coupled to a massless scalar field, we investigate how the Unruh effect affects the nonlocality and entanglement of two-qubit and three-qubit states when one of the entangled qubits…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-12 Zehua Tian , Jieci Wang , Jiliang Jing

We study the "anti-Unruh effect" for an entangled quantum state in reference to the counterintuitive cooling previously pointed out for an accelerated detector coupled to the vacuum. We show that quantum entanglement for an initially…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-02-23 Taotao Li , Baocheng Zhang , Li You

Entanglement is known to significantly improve the performance (separately) of communication and detection schemes that utilize quantum resources. This work explores the simultaneous utility of quantum entanglement for (joint) communication…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 Yuhang Yao , Syed A. Jafar

We study correlations between two Unruh-DeWitt detectors coupled to a scalar field in a cylindrical cavity. Boundary conditions strongly modify the detector-correlation dynamics relative to free space. The entanglement negativity is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Shagun Kaushal , Harkirat Singh Sahota

One consequence of the cosmic censorship conjecture is that any topological structure will ultimately collapse to within the horizons of a set of black holes, and as a result, an external classical observer will be unable to probe it.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-19 Laura J. Henderson , Su Yu Ding , Robert B. Mann

Quantum entanglement as the one of the most general quantum resources, can be quantified by von Neumann entropy. However, as we know, the von Neumann entropy is only statistical quantity or operator, it therefore has fluctuation. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Sixuan Zhang , Tonghua Liu , Shuo Cao , Yuting Liu , Shuaibo Geng , Yujie Lian

In this contribution, we investigate the entanglement behavior of a composite system consists of two different dimensional subsystems in non-inertial frames. In particular, we consider a composite system of qubit(two-dimensional) subsystem,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-09 Nasser Metwally

The detection of entanglement provides a definitive proof of quantumness. Its ascertainment might be challenging for hot or macroscopic objects, where entanglement is typically weak, but nevertheless present. Here we propose a platform for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-10 Tanjung Krisnanda , Tomasz Paterek , Mauro Paternostro , Timothy C. H. Liew

The acceleration-induced transparency (AIT) effect has been suggested recently to amply the transition probability of the two-level detctor and offers a potential avenue for the experimental detection of the Unruh effect. In this paper, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-12 Yongjie Pan , Baocheng Zhang , Qingyu Cai

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…

Vacuum fluctuations of quantum fields provide an unavoidable environment for any quantum system coupled to it. We study the interplay between boundary conditions and acceleration in determining decoherence of a two-level Unruh-DeWitt…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-06 Harkirat Singh Sahota , Shagun Kaushal , Kinjalk Lochan

We consider Unruh-Wald qubit detector model adopted for the far future region of an exactly solvable 1+1 dimensional scalar field theory in a Robertson-Walker expanding spacetime. It is shown that the expansion of the universe in its…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-11 Yujie Li , Yue Dai , Yu Shi

Entanglement between particle and detector is known to be inherent in the measurement process. Gurvitz recently analyzed the coupling of an electron in a double dot (DD) to a quantum point contact (QPC) detector. In this paper we examine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Michael Steiner , R. W. Rendell

Single quantum system, such as Unruh-DeWitt detector, can be used to determine absolute acceleration by local measurements on a quantum field. To show this, we consider two kinematically indistinguishable scenarios: an inertial observer,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-05-09 Andrzej Dragan , Ivette Fuentes , Jorma Louko