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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

Recently it has been demonstrated that it is possible to harvest quantum resources other than entanglement from a coherent scalar field. Employing time-dependent perturbation theory, we present a complete analysis of the conditions under…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-10 Nikolaos K. Kollas , Dimitris Moustos

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 theoretically propose an experimentally viable scheme to explore the transfer of nonclassical correlations from a dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) to a pair of impurities immersed in it. Operating at ultra-low temperature, density…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 Zehua Tian , Weiping Yao , Xiaobao Liu , Mengjie Wang , Jieci Wang , Jiliang Jing

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 study the effects of horizons on the entanglement harvested between two Unruh-DeWitt detectors via the use of moving mirrors with and without strict horizons. The entanglement reveals the sensitivity of the entanglement harvested to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-20 Wan Cong , Chen Qian , Michael R. R. Good , Robert B. Mann

We study the protocol of entanglement harvesting when the particle detectors that harvest entanglement from the field are replaced by fully relativistic quantum field theories. We show that two localized modes of the quantum field theories…

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

We investigate how entangled inertial Unruh-DeWitt detectors are affected by interaction with a quantum field using a nonperturbative method. Inertial detectors in a $(3+1)$-dimensional Minkowski spacetime with instantaneous switching…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-28 Kensuke Gallock-Yoshimura , Robert B. Mann

We make a detailed comparison between entanglement harvesting for uniformly accelerated detectors in vacuum and static ones in a thermal bath at the Unruh temperature and find that, for a small energy gap relative to the Heisenberg energy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-27 Zhihong Liu , Jialin Zhang , Hongwei Yu

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

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 analyzed how entanglement harvesting is affected by the performance of a measurement on the quantum field. The measurement on the field is modelled as the coupling of a particle detector to the field, followed by a projective measurement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-22 Héctor Maeso-García , José Polo-Gómez , Eduardo Martín-Martínez

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

This study explores the transfer of nonclassical correlations from an ultra-cold atom system to a pair of pulsed laser beams. Through nondestructive local probe measurements, we introduce an alternative to destructive techniques for mapping…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-16 Cisco Gooding , Allison Sachs , Robert B. Mann , Silke Weinfurtner

We study the properties of the transition probability for a circularly accelerated detector that interacts with the massless scalar fields in the presence of a reflecting boundary. As the trajectory radius increases, the transition…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-28 Runhu Li , Zixu Zhao

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 analyze entanglement harvesting for arbitrary initial states of particle detectors and arbitrary quasifree states of the field. Despite the fact that spatially smeared particle detectors are known to break covariance for arbitrary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-20 Héctor Maeso-García , José Polo-Gómez , Eduardo Martín-Martínez

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 consider entanglement harvesting in de Sitter space using a model of multiple qubit detectors. We obtain the formula of the entanglement negativity for this system. Applying the obtained formula, we find that it is possible to access to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-30 Shingo Kukita , Yasusada Nambu