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We explore entanglement harvesting with particle detectors that couple linearly to non-Hermitian fields. Specifically, we analyze the case of particle detectors coupled to a complex scalar quantum field and to a spin 1/2 fermionic field. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-30 T. Rick Perche , Caroline Lima , Eduardo Martín-Martínez

We study entanglement harvested by Unruh DeWitt detectors following Rindler trajectories in compactified and superposed Minkowski spacetime. We consider different directions of acceleration (both parallel and antiparallel), separation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-27 P. Poopathysankar , Lucas Hackl , Anwesha Chakraborty

We explore whether acceleration assists entanglement harvesting for a pair of uniformly accelerated detectors in three different acceleration scenarios, i.e., parallel, anti-parallel and mutually perpendicular acceleration, both in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-22 Zhihong Liu , Jialin Zhang , Robert B. Mann , Hongwei Yu

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

Entanglement harvesting from the quantum field is a well-known fact that, in recent times, is being rigorously investigated further in flat and different curved backgrounds. The usually understood formulation studies the possibility of two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-17 Dipankar Barman , Subhajit Barman , Bibhas Ranjan Majhi

We investigate entanglement harvesting in AdS$_4$. Applying the general results of [Phys. Rev. D 97, 125011 (2018)], we consider two scenarios: one where two particle detectors are geodesic, with equal redshift; and one where both are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-19 Keith K. Ng , Robert B. Mann , Eduardo Martin-Martinez

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 analyze a tripartite entanglement harvesting protocol with three Unruh-DeWitt detectors adiabatically interacting with a quantum scalar field. We consider linear, equilateral triangular, and scalene triangular configurations for the…

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…

We assess proposals for entangling two distant atoms by measurement of emitted photons, analyzing how their performance depends on the photon detection efficiency. We consider schemes based on measurement of one or two photons and compare…

Standard procedures for entanglement detection assume that experimenters can exactly implement specific quantum measurements. Here, we depart from such idealizations and investigate, in both theory and experiment, the detection of genuine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-10 Huan Cao , Simon Morelli , Lee A. Rozema , Chao Zhang , Armin Tavakoli , Philip Walther

The entanglement harvesting protocol is an operational way to probe vacuum entanglement. This protocol relies on two atoms, modelled by Unruh-DeWitt detectors, that are initially unentangled. These atoms then interact locally with the field…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-07 Qidong Xu , Shadi Ali Ahmad , Alexander R. H. Smith

We study entanglement harvesting in general $d$-dimensional conformal field theories using pointlike Unruh-DeWitt detectors coupled to scalar primary operators. This extends standard harvesting protocols beyond free fields to interacting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Kelly Wurtz , Caroline Lima , Robert C. Myers , Eduardo Martín-Martínez

We present entanglement witness operators for detecting genuine multipartite entanglement. These witnesses are robust against noise and require only two local measurement settings when used in an experiment, independent from the number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Geza Toth , Otfried Guehne

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

Instantaneous measurements of non-local observables between space-like separated regions can be performed without violating causality. This feat relies on the use of entanglement. Here we propose novel protocols for this task and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Salman Beigi , Robert Koenig

We consider a possible detector-efficiency loophole in experiments that detect entanglement via the local measurement of witness operators. Here, only local properties of the detectors are known. We derive a general threshold for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-07-18 Patrick Skwara , Hermann Kampermann , Matthias Kleinmann , Dagmar Bruss

We reveal that the information exchange between particle detectors and their ability to harvest correlations from a quantum field can interfere constructively and destructively. This allows for scenarios where the presence of entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-02 Matheus H. Zambianco , Adam Teixidó-Bonfill , Eduardo Martín-Martínez

We analyze correlations between pairs of particle detectors quadratically coupled to a real scalar field. We find that, while a single quadratically coupled detector presents no divergences, when one considers pairs of detectors there…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-08 Allison Sachs , Robert B. Mann , Eduardo Martin-Martinez

We present an efficient entanglement concentration protocol (ECP) for mobile electrons with charge detection. This protocol is quite different from other ECPs for one can obtain a maximally entangled pair from a pair of less-entangled state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Yu-Bo Sheng , Lan Zhou , Wei-Wen Cheng , Long-Yan Gong , Sheng-Mei Zhao