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The behavior of accelerating Unruh-DeWitt detectors coupled with a spinor field in (3+1)-dimensional spacetime is investigated. For a single point-like detector with Gaussian switching function, the transition probability increases with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-26 Dawei Wu , Shan-Chang Tang , Yu Shi

We demonstrate that non-linear entanglement witnesses can be made particularly useful for entanglement detection in hyper-entangled or multilevel states. We test this idea experimentally on the platform of linear optics using a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-12 Vojtěch Trávníček , Karol Bartkiewicz , Antonín Černoch , Karel Lemr

We investigate how nontrivial topology affects the entanglement dynamics between a detector and a quantum field and between two detectors mediated by a quantum field. Nontrivial topology refers to both that of the base space and that of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-17 Shih-Yuin Lin , Chung-Hsien Chou , Bei-Lok Hu

Unruh-deWitt detectors have been utilised widely as probes for quantum particles, entanglement and spacetime curvature. Here, we extend the standard treatment of an Unruh-deWitt detector interacting with a massless, scalar field to include…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-13 Joshua Foo , Sho Onoe , Magdalena Zych

Entanglement of Dirac fields has been studied and it is known to decrease with increasing acceleration when a quantum state is shared between users in non-inertial frames. A new form of an entangled vacuum state observed by the accelerated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-30 Leyli Esmaelifar , Behrouz Mirza , Zahra Ebadi

We introduce an experimental procedure for the detection of quantum entanglement of an unknown quantum state with as few measurements as possible. The method requires neither a priori knowledge of the state nor a shared reference frame…

We study nonperturbatively the entanglement generation between two and three emitters in an exactly solvable relativistic variant of the spin-boson model, equivalent to the time-independent formulation of the Unruh-DeWitt detector model. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-15 Kensuke Gallock-Yoshimura , Erickson Tjoa

Entanglement entropy is crucial for understanding the link between quantum mechanics and information theory. This thesis investigates how energy fluctuations and acceleration affect entanglement entropy through three key scenarios. First,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-28 Felipe Diaz

An operator-algebraic framework based on Tomita-Takesaki modular theory is used to study aspects of quantum entanglement via the application of the modular conjugation operator $J$. The entanglement structure of quantum fields is studied…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-30 Rupak Chatterjee

Entanglement has been known to boost target detection, despite it being destroyed by lossy-noisy propagation. Recently, [Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 010501 (2022)] proposed a quantum pulse-compression radar to extend entanglement's benefit to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-25 Bo-Han Wu , Saikat Guha , Quntao Zhuang

Entanglement-enhanced quantum metrology explores the utilization of quantum entanglement to enhance measurement precision. When particles in a probe are prepared into a quantum entangled state, they collectively accumulate information about…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-20 Jiahao Huang , Min Zhuang , Chaohong Lee

Entanglement is a key property in the development of quantum technologies and in the study of quantum many-body simulations. However, entanglement measurement typically requires quantum full-state tomography (FST). Here we present a neural…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-20 Yulei Huang , Liangyu Che , Chao Wei , Feng Xu , Xinfang Nie , Jun Li , Dawei Lu , Tao Xin

We investigate the back-action from a spatially pointlike particle detector on a quantum scalar field, as characterised by the expectation value of the field's stress-energy tensor, without conditioning on a measurement of the detector.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-12 Adam S. Wilkinson , Leo J. A. Parry , Jorma Louko , William G. Unruh

We investigate the mutual information harvesting protocol for two uniformly accelerated particle detectors. We numerically show that, while a single detector responds as if it is immersed in a thermal bath, the quantum mutual information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-21 Manar Naeem , Kensuke Gallock-Yoshimura , Robert B. Mann

We consider a two-level atom that follows a wordline of constant velocity, while interacting with a massless scalar field in a thermal state through: (i) an Unruh-DeWitt coupling, and (ii) a coupling that involves the time derivative of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-24 Nikolaos Papadatos , Dimitris Moustos

We investigate the transition of a two-level atom as the Unruh-Dewitt detector accelerated in the electromagnetic field in this paper. The enhancement of the transition probability is found for different field states under the conditions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-17 Yongjie Pan , Baocheng Zhang

We introduce a general method for the experimental detection of entanglement by performing only few local measurements, assuming some prior knowledge of the density matrix. The idea is based on the minimal decomposition of witness operators…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 O. Guehne , P. Hyllus , D. Bruss , A. Ekert , M. Lewenstein , C. Macchiavello , A. Sanpera

A detailed treatment of the entanglement dynamics of two distant but non-identical systems is presented. We study the entanglement evolution of two remote atoms interacting independently with a cavity field, as in the double Jaynes-Cummings…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Chan , M. D. Reid , Z. Ficek

Entanglement is a striking feature of quantum mechanics and an essential ingredient in most applications in quantum information. Typically, coupling of a system to an environment inhibits entanglement, particularly in macroscopic systems.…

Owing to the inevitable loss in communication channels, the distance of entanglement distribution is limited to approximately 100 kilometres on the ground. Quantum repeaters can circumvent this problem by using quantum memory and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-08 Xiao Liu , Jun Hu , Zong-Feng Li , Xue Li , Pei-Yun Li , Peng-Jun Liang , Zong-Quan Zhou , Chuan-Feng Li , Guang-Can Guo