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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

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

Over the past century, a large community within theoretical physics has been seeking a unified framework for quantum gravity. Yet, to date, there is still no experimental evidence of any non-classical features of gravity. While traditional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-22 Stefan Aimet , Hadrien Chevalier , M. S. Kim

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 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

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

If gravitational perturbations are quantized into gravitons in analogy with the electromagnetic field and photons, the resulting graviton interactions should lead to an entangling interaction between massive objects. We suggest a test of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-27 Daniel Carney , Holger Müller , Jacob M. Taylor

The effect of black holes on entanglement harvesting has been of considerable interest over the past decade. Research involving stationary Unruh-DeWitt (UDW) detectors near a (2+1)-dimensional Ba\~nados-Teitelboim-Zanelli (BTZ) black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-09 S. Wang , M. R. Preciado Rivas , R. B. Mann

Protocols for observing gravity induced entanglement typically comprise the interaction of two particles prepared either in a superposition of two discrete paths, or in a continuously delocalized (harmonic oscillator) state of motion. An…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-14 Ofek Bengyat , Andrea Di Biagio , Markus Aspelmeyer , Marios Christodoulou

We analyze scenarios in which pairs of Unruh-DeWitt-like detectors interact with scalar field(s) with bi-linear and quadratic coupling. For all cases -- real scalar fields, charged scalar fields, and even for couplings mixing two different…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-21 Allison M. Sachs , Robert B. Mann , Eduardo Martin-Martinez

We investigate the entanglement generation or harvesting between two identical, comoving Unruh-DeWitt detectors in the cosmological de Sitter spacetime. The detectors are assumed to be unentangled initially. They are individually coupled to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-01 Shagun Kaushal , Sourav Bhattacharya

We study how two fully-featured hydrogenlike atoms harvest entanglement from the electromagnetic field vacuum, even when the atoms are spacelike separated. We compare the electromagnetic case ---qualitatively and quantitatively--- with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-15 Alejandro Pozas-Kerstjens , Eduardo Martin-Martinez

We explore the quantum coherence between a pair of entangled Unruh-DeWitt detectors, interacting with a quantum field, using a nonperturbative approach in a (3+1)-dimensional Minkowski spacetime with instantaneous switching…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-18 Shu-Min Wu , Yu-Xuan Wang , Wentao Liu

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 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 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

It is discussed how systems of quantum-correlated (entangled)particles or atoms behave in external gravitational fields and what gravitational effects may exist in such systems. An experimental setup is proposed which improves the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Horst von Borzeszkowski , Michael B. Mensky

We study radiative processes of two qubits coupled to a massless scalar field prepared in the Minkowski vacuum state. The analyze the effects of vacuum fluctuations in the generation of qubits' entangled states is performed. We assume one…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-16 F. Sobrero , M. S. Soares , N. F. Svaiter

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

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