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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 explore the entanglement dynamics of two detectors undergoing uniform acceleration and circular motion within a massive scalar field, while also investigating the influence of the anti-Unruh effect on entanglement harvesting. Contrary to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-06 Yongjie Pan , Jiatong Yan , Sansheng Yang , Baocheng Zhang

Ultracold fermionic atoms in an optical lattice, with a sudden position-dependent change (a quench) in the effective dispersion relation, have been proposed by Rodr\'iguez-Laguna et al as an analogue spacetime test of the Unruh effect. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-10 Adrian Lopez-Raven , Robert B. Mann , Jorma Louko

We explore entanglement harvesting using two Unruh-DeWitt (UDW) detectors linearly coupled to the scalar density of a massless spin-1/2 field in 1+1 Schwarzschild spacetime. We consider different vacua, including the Boulware,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-04 Nitesh Kumar Dubey , Sanved Kolekar

We estimate the transition rates of a uniformly accelerated Unruh-DeWitt detector coupled to a quantum field with reflecting conditions on a boundary plane (a "mirror"). We find that these are essentially indistinguishable from the usual…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-08-27 Carlo Rovelli , Matteo Smerlak

We consider two initially entangled Unruh-DeWitt particle detectors and examine how the initial entanglement changes after interacting with a quantum scalar field. As initially nonentangled detectors extract entanglement from the field,…

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

We study the effects of motion for an Unruh-DeWitt detector, modeled as a two-level system, on the amount of coherence extracted, when it interacts with a massless scalar coherent field in 1+1 Minkowski spacetime. We observe that compared…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-29 Nikolaos K. Kollas , Dimitris Moustos , Kostas Blekos

We investigate entanglement of a quantum field in de Sitter spacetime using a particle detector model. By considering the entanglement between two comoving detectors interacting with a scalar field, it is possible to detect the entanglement…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-16 Yasusada Nambu

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

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 the extraction of quantum coherence by three static Unruh-DeWitt (UDW) detectors that interact locally with a massless scalar vacuum field in the vicinity of an infinite perfectly reflecting boundary. Depending on the setup, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-30 Shu-Min Wu , Xiao-Ying Jiang , Xiang-Yue Yu , Zhihong Liu , Xiao-Li Huang

Recently, it has been shown that the massless quantum vacuum state contains entanglement between timelike separated regions of spacetime, in addition to the entanglement between the spacelike separated regions usually considered. Here, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 S. Jay Olson , Timothy C. Ralph

We show that entanglement can be used to detect spacetime curvature. Quantum fields in the Minkowski vacuum are entangled with respect to local field modes. This entanglement can be swapped to spatially separated quantum systems using…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-03-22 Greg Ver Steeg , Nicolas C. Menicucci

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

We study the dynamics of an Unruh-DeWitt detector interacting with a massless scalar field in an arbitrary static spherically symmetric spacetimes whose metric is characterised by a single metric function $f(r)$. In order to obtain clean…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-07 Erickson Tjoa , Robert B. Mann

The aim of this work is to study the entanglement harvesting between two graphene layers inside a planar microcavity. Applying time-dependent perturbation theory it is shown that nonclassical correlations between electrons in different…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-08-20 Juan Sebastian Ardenghi

We investigate the effects of field temperature $T^{(f)}$ on the entanglement harvesting between two uniformly accelerated detectors. For their parallel motion, the thermal nature of fields does not produce any entanglement, and therefore,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-28 Dipankar Barman , Subhajit Barman , Bibhas Ranjan Majhi

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 how quantum systems can harvest entanglement from the quantum degrees of freedom of the gravitational field. Concretely, we describe in detail the interaction of non-relativistic quantum systems with linearized quantum gravity, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-21 T. Rick Perche , Boris Ragula , Eduardo Martín-Martínez