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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 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

Quantum entanglement harvesting in the relativistic setup attracted a lot of attention in recent times. Acquiring more entanglement within two qubits may be very desirable to establish fruitful communication between them. On the other hand…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-17 Dipankar Barman , Bibhas Ranjan Majhi

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 quantum steering and Bell nonlocality harvested by the local interaction of two Unruh-DeWitt detectors with the vacuum massless scalar field, both in the presence of gravitational waves and in Minkowski spacetime. It is shown that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-19 Shu-Min Wu , Rui-Di Wang , Xiao-Li Huang , Zejun Wang

We review recent results regarding entanglement in quantum fields in cosmological spacetimes and related phenomena in flat spacetime such as the Unruh effect. We being with a summary of important results about field entanglement and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-29 Eduardo Martin-Martinez , Nicolas C. Menicucci

The ability to create and harness entanglement is crucial to the fields of quantum sensing and simulation, and ultracold atom-cavity systems offer pristine platforms for this undertaking. Here, we present a method for creating and…

In order to detect the quantum nature of gravity, the quantum gravity induced entanglement of masses(QGEM) has been proposed both in flat and curved spacetime. In this paper we propose an analogous QGEM protocol using photons produced in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-27 Chi Zhang

In a recent experiment Campbell et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 020406 (2006)] observed degenerate four-wave mixing of matter-waves in a one-dimensional optical lattice, a process with potential for generating entanglement among atoms. We…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 M. K. Olsen , M. J. Davis

We study the continuous variable entanglement of a system of two particles under the influence of Earth's gravitational field. We determine a phase-space description of this bipartite system by calculating its Wigner function and verify its…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-28 Rui Alves , Catarina Bastos , Orfeu Bertolami

We propose a protocol by which entanglement can be extracted repeatedly from a quantum field. In analogy with prior work on entanglement harvesting, we call this protocol entanglement farming. It consists of successively sending pairs of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-11-15 Eduardo Martin-Martinez , Eric G. Brown , William Donnelly , Achim Kempf

We firstly generalize the massive scalar propagator for planar gravitational waves propagating on Minkowski space obtained recently in Ref. [1]. We then use this propagator to study the response of a freely falling Unruh-DeWitt detector to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-21 Tomislav Prokopec

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

The purpose of this study is to calculate the entanglement measure for a bipartite system where the two subsystems interact via a central potential, and more importantly, to analyze the conceptual implication in the case of gravitational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-16 Jianhao M. Yang

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 role of entanglement in determining the non-classicality of a given interaction has gained significant traction over the last few years. In particular, as the basis for new experimental proposals to test the quantum nature of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-15 A. Douglas K. Plato , Dennis Rätzel , Chuanqi Wan

We analyze the harvesting of entanglement and classical correlations from the quantum vacuum to particle detectors. We assess the impact on the detectors' harvesting ability of the spacetime dimensionality, the suddenness of the detectors'…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-22 Alejandro Pozas-Kerstjens , Eduardo Martin-Martinez

We investigate the effects of spontaneous scattering on the evolution of entanglement of two atomic samples, probed by phase shift measurements on optical beams interacting with both samples. We develop a formalism of conditional quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Antonio Di Lisi , Silvio De Siena , Fabrizio Illuminati

Building on the well-known Unruh-Davies effect, we examine the effects of projective measurements and quantum communications between accelerated and stationary observers. We find that the projective measurement by a uniformly accelerated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-16 Muxin Han , S. Jay Olson , Jonathan P. Dowling

Recent proposals are emerging for the experimental detection of entanglement mediated by classical gravity, carrying significant theoretical and observational implications. In fact, the detection of gravitational waves (GWs) in LIGO…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-07 Partha Nandi , Bibhas Ranjan Majhi , Nandita Debnath , Subhajit Kala