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We study entanglement harvesting for matter systems such as atoms, ions or molecules, whose center of mass degrees of freedom are quantum delocalized and which couple to a relativistic quantum field. We employ a generalized Unruh-deWitt…

Measurements provide a novel mechanism for generating the entanglement resource necessary for performing scalable quantum computation. Recently, we proposed a method for performing parity measurements in a coupled quantum dot system. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Avinash Kolli , Simon C. Benjamin , Brendon W. Lovett , Thomas M. Stace

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

An operator-algebraic framework based on Tomita-Takesaki modular theory is used to study aspects of quantum entanglement via the application of the modular conjugation operator $J$. The entanglement structure of quantum fields is studied…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-30 Rupak Chatterjee

The detection of entanglement provides a definitive proof of quantumness. Its ascertainment might be challenging for hot or macroscopic objects, where entanglement is typically weak, but nevertheless present. Here we propose a platform for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-10 Tanjung Krisnanda , Tomasz Paterek , Mauro Paternostro , Timothy C. H. Liew

To prepare quantum states and extract information, it is often assumed that one can perform a perfectly projective measurement. Such measurements can achieve an uncorrelated system and environment state. However, perfectly projective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-25 Alvin Gonzales , Daniel Dilley , Mark Byrd

We consider acceleration-assisted entanglement harvesting as evidenced in correlations between two accelerating Unruh detectors coupled to a scalar field. We elaborate on earlier studies, which in a stationary phase approximation calculated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-13 Andrew Brainerd , Brian Greene

In many states of the quantum electromagnetic field, including the vacuum state, entanglement exists between different space-time regions -- even space-like separated ones. These correlations can be harvested and, thereby, detected by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-22 Frieder Lindel , Alexa Herter , Valentin Gebhart , Jérôme Faist , Stefan Y. Buhmann

We explore the crucial role of relative space-time positioning between the two detectors in an operational two-party entanglement-harvesting protocol. Specifically we show that the protocol is robust if imprecision in spatial positioning…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-25 Eduardo Martin-Martinez , Barry C. Sanders

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 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

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 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 investigate the interplay between genuine entanglement harvesting and communication mediated correlations for local particle detectors in expanding cosmological spacetimes. Focusing on a conformally coupled scalar field in de Sitter…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-29 Matheus H. Zambianco , Adam Teixidó-Bonfill , 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 experimentally accessible lower bounds on entanglement measures based on entropic uncertainty relations. Experimentally quantifying entanglement is highly desired for applications of quantum simulation experiments to fundamental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-25 Bjarne Bergh , Martin Gärttner

In quantum metrology, entangled states of many-particle systems are investigated to enhance measurement precision of the most precise clocks and field sensors. While single-parameter quantum metrology is well established, many metrological…

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

How can we quantify the entanglement in a quantum state, if only the expectation value of a single observable is given? This question is of great interest for the analysis of entanglement in experiments, since in many multiparticle…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-05-16 O. Gühne , M. Reimpell , R. F. Werner

Careful tailoring the quantum state of probes offers the capability of investigating matter at unprecedented precisions. Rarely, however, the interaction with the sample is fully encompassed by a single parameter, and the information…