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We investigate entanglement dynamics for two atoms coupling with fluctuating electromagnetic field in the cosmic string spacetime. We calculate the entanglement for different conditions. It is found that the entanglement behaviors are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-05 Zhiming Huang

We investigate the entanglement harvesting phenomenon for static detectors that locally interact with massless scalar fields in the cosmic string spacetime, which, though locally flat, features a conical structure defined by a deficit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-04 Ying Ji , Jialin Zhang , Hongwei Yu

When observing a quantum field via detectors with access to only the mixed states of spatially separated, local regions -- a ubiquitous experimental design -- the capacity to access the full extent of distributed entanglement can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-02 Natalie Klco , D. H. Beck

In this paper, we explore correlation harvesting in quantum superposition, specifically focusing on the entanglement and mutual information extracted by two Unruh-DeWitt detectors interacting with a quantum field in a mass-superposed BTZ…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-10 Yu Tang , Wentao Liu , Zhilong Liu , Jieci Wang

Quantum field theory is completely characterized by the field correlations between spacetime points. In turn, some of these can be accessed by locally coupling to the field simple quantum systems, a.k.a. particle detectors. In this work, we…

We consider an entanglement harvesting protocol between two Unruh-deWitt detectors in quantum superpositions of static trajectories in the static de Sitter and thermal Minkowski spacetimes. We demonstrate for the first time that the spatial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-30 Joshua Foo , Robert B. Mann , Magdalena Zych

We explore correlations harvesting by two static detectors locally interacting with vacuum massless scalar fields in the presence of an infinite perfectly reflecting boundary. We study the phenomena of mutual information harvesting and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-28 Zhihong Liu , Jialin Zhang , Hongwei Yu

Separate regions in space are generally entangled, even in the vacuum state. It is known that this entanglement can be swapped to separated Unruh-DeWitt detectors, i.e., that the vacuum can serve as a source of entanglement. Here, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-03-23 Mathieu Cliche , Achim Kempf

It has been shown that the vacuum state of a free quantum field is entangled and such vacuum entanglement can be harvested by a pair of initially uncorrelated detectors interacting locally with the vacuum field for a finite time. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-01 Hui Hu , Jialin Zhang , Hongwei Yu

There should be quantum vacuum fluctuations of spacetime itself, if we accept that the basic quantum principles we are already familiar with apply as well to a quantum theory of gravity. In this paper, we study, in linearized quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-11 Shijing Cheng , Hongwei Yu , Jiawei Hu

We study the Hilbert space structure of classical spacetimes under the assumption that entanglement in holographic theories determines semiclassical geometry. We show that this simple assumption has profound implications; for example, a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-11 Yasunori Nomura , Nico Salzetta , Fabio Sanches , Sean J. Weinberg

Studies of quantum field entanglement in de Sitter space based on the von Neumann entropy of local patches have concluded that curvature enhances entanglement between regions and their complements. Similar conclusions about entanglement…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-04 Patricia Ribes-Metidieri , Ivan Agullo , Béatrice Bonga

We show that a dynamical spacetime generates entanglement between modes of a quantum field. Conversely, the entanglement encodes information concerning the underlying spacetime structure, which hints at the prospect of applications of this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. L. Ball , I. Fuentes-Schuller , F. P. Schuller

We consider the entanglement dynamics between two Unruh-DeWitt detectors at rest separated at a distance $d$. This simple model when analyzed properly in quantum field theory shows many interesting facets and helps to dispel some…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-04-15 Shih-Yuin Lin , B. L. Hu

In this study, we establish a connection between timelike and spacelike entanglement entropy. We show that timelike entanglement entropy is closely related to spacelike entanglement entropy and its temporal derivative. For a broad class of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-01 Wu-zhong Guo , Song He , Yu-Xuan Zhang

We argue, in the context of Ads/CFT correspondence, that the degree of entanglement on the CFTs side determines the orientation of space and time on the dual global spacetime. That is, the global spacetime dual to entangled copies of field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-09-11 Ovidiu Racorean

We study the stability and the scattering properties of a spacetime with a topological defect along a spherical bubble. This bubble connects two flat spacetimes which are asymptotically Minkowski, so that the resulting universe may be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-05-09 J. P. M. Pitelli , R. A. Mosna

The CPT invariant vacuum states of a scalar field in de Sitter space, called $\alpha$-vacua, are not unique. We explore the $\alpha$-vacua from the quantum information perspective by a pair of static Unruh-DeWitt (UDW) detectors coupled to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-27 Feng-Li Lin , Sayid Mondal

Detecting the structure of spacetime with quantum technologies has always been one of the frontier topics of relativistic quantum information. Here, we analytically study the generation and redistribution of Gaussian entanglement of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-05 Wen-Mei Li , Rui-Di Wang , Hao-Yu Wu , Xiao-Li Huang , Hao-Sheng Zen , Shu-Min Wu

We show that the entropy of cosmological perturbations originating as quantum vacuum fluctuations in the very early universe, including the contribution of the leading nonlinear interactions, can be viewed as momentum space entanglement…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-11-12 Suddhasattwa Brahma , Omar Alaryani , Robert Brandenberger