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We show that particle detectors coupled to a massless quantum field through its derivative can genuinely harvest entanglement form the field even when they are in causal contact in flat spacetime. This is particularly relevant since the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-20 Adam Teixidó-Bonfill , Eduardo Martín-Martínez

We investigate the phenomenon of entanglement harvesting for a spacetime in quantum superposition, using two Unruh-DeWitt detectors interacting with a quantum scalar field where the spacetime background is modeled as a superposition of two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-16 Anwesha Chakraborty , Lucas Hackl , Magdalena Zych

We study bipartite entanglement harvesting from the quantum vacuum of a massless scalar field between two subsystems, each composed of a finite number of Unruh-DeWitt detectors. Using perturbation theory, we show that the leading-order…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Santeri Salomaa , Esko Keski-Vakkuri , Sergi Nadal-Gisbert

Motivated by the prospect of experimental implementations of entanglement harvesting in superconducting circuits, we propose a model of variable-gap particle detector that aims to bridge some of the gaps between Unruh-DeWitt (UDW) models…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-06 Adam Teixidó-Bonfill , Xi Dai , Adrian Lupascu , Eduardo Martín-Martínez

We investigate vacuum entanglement harvesting in the presence of a zero mode. We show that, for a variety of detector models and couplings (namely, Unruh-DeWitt qubit and harmonic oscillator detectors, amplitude and derivative coupling),…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-08 Erickson Tjoa , Eduardo Martín-Martínez

We revisit the entanglement harvesting protocol when two detectors are in causal contact. We study the role of field-mediated communication in generating entanglement between the two detectors interacting with a quantum field. We provide a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-01 Erickson Tjoa , Eduardo Martín-Martínez

We study the role that both vacuum fluctuations and vacuum entanglement of a scalar field play in identifying the spacetime topology, which is not prescribed from first principles---neither in general relativity or quantum gravity. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-10 Eduardo Martin-Martinez , Alexander R. H. Smith , Daniel R. Terno

We study the harvesting of quantum and classical correlations from a hot scalar field in a periodic cavity by a pair of spatially separated oscillator-detectors. Specifically, we utilize non-perturbative and exact (non-numerical) techniques…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-01-10 Eric G. Brown

In many states of the quantum electromagnetic field, including the vacuum state, entanglement exists between different space-time regions -- even space-like separated ones. These correlations can be harvested and, thereby, detected by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-22 Frieder Lindel , Alexa Herter , Valentin Gebhart , Jérôme Faist , Stefan Y. Buhmann

Entanglement is the key resource for quantum technologies and is at the root of exciting many-body phenomena. However, quantifying the entanglement between two parts of a real-world quantum system is challenging when it interacts with its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-22 Christian Carisch , Oded Zilberberg

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

Contextuality, a key resource for quantum advantage, describes systems in which the outcome of a measurement is not independent of other compatible measurements, in contrast to classical hidden-variable descriptions. We investigate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-08 Caroline Lima , María Rosa Preciado-Rivas , Sanchit Srivastava

One of the most promising applications of quantum networks is entanglement assisted sensing. The field of quantum metrology exploits quantum correlations to improve the precision bound for applications such as precision timekeeping, field…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-10 Emily A. Van Milligen , Christos N. Gagatsos , Eneet Kaur , Don Towsley , Saikat Guha

We study the entanglement harvesting between two identical buckled honeycomb lattices placed inside a planar microcavity. By applying time dependent perturbation theory, we obtain quantum correlations between both layers induced by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-08 Facundo Arreyes , Federico Escudero , Juan Sebastián Ardenghi , Alfredo Juan

We study the non-perturbative harvesting of classical and quantum correlations between two parties coupled to a quantum field. First, we consider a scenario with an arbitrary number of two-level systems that couple to a quantum field…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-06 Abhisek Sahu , Irene Melgarejo-Lermas , Eduardo Martín-Martínez

We study entanglement harvested from a quantum field through local interaction with Unruh-DeWitt detectors undergoing linear acceleration. The interactions allow entanglement to be swapped locally from the field to the detectors. We find an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-19 Grant Salton , Robert B. Mann , Nicolas C. Menicucci

We study, in the framework of the entanglement harvesting protocol, the entanglement harvesting of both a pair of inertial and uniformly accelerated detectors locally interacting with vacuum massless scalar fields subjected to a perfectly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-01 Zhihong Liu , Jialin Zhang , Hongwei Yu

We analyze the entanglement generation in a pair of qubits that experience the vacuum fluctuations of a scalar field in the Cosmic String spacetime. The qubits are modeled as Unruh-DeWitt detectors coupled to a massless scalar field. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-25 Willy Izquierdo , J. Beltran , Enrique Arias

Quantum fields in vacuum states carry an infinite amount of quantum entanglement, and its entanglement entropy has the ultraviolet divergence. Harvesting protocols of the vacuum entanglement had been investigated, but its efficiency is very…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-13 Jose Trevison , Koji Yamaguchi , Masahiro Hotta

We carry out the first investigation of the entanglement and mutual information harvesting protocols for detectors freely falling into a black hole. Working in $(1+1)$-dimensional Schwarzschild black hole spacetime, we consider two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 Kensuke Gallock-Yoshimura , Erickson Tjoa , Robert B. Mann