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We study the phenomenon of entanglement extraction from the vacuum of a massless scalar field in $(1+1)$ dimensional spacetime in presence of a moving Dirichlet boundary condition, i.e. mirror spacetime, using two inertial Unruh-DeWitt…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-11 Wan Cong , Erickson Tjoa , Robert B. Mann

We study the protocol of entanglement harvesting when two local probes couple to the vacuum of a real scalar quantum field with arbitrary temporal profiles. We use a Hermite expansion to efficiently compute smeared field propagators in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Marcos Morote-Balboa , T. Rick Perche

We examine the quantum gravitational entanglement of two test masses in the context of linearized General Relativity with specific non-local interaction with matter. To accomplish this, we consider an energy-momentum tensor describing two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-19 Ulrich K. Beckering Vinckers , Álvaro de la Cruz-Dombriz , Anupam Mazumdar

When a massive quantum body is put into a spatial superposition, it is of interest to consider the quantum aspects of the gravitational field sourced by the body. We argue that in order to understand how the body may become entangled with…

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

We investigate the entanglement of a quantum field in the expanding universe. By introducing a bipartite system using a coarse-grained scalar field, we apply the separability criterion based on the partial transpose operation and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Yasusada Nambu , Yuji Ohsumi

We study, in the framework of the entanglement harvesting protocol, the entanglement harvesting of both a pair of inertial and uniformly accelerated detectors locally interacting with vacuum massless scalar fields subjected to a perfectly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-01 Zhihong Liu , Jialin Zhang , Hongwei Yu

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

We study the harvesting of entanglement and mutual information by Unruh-DeWitt particle detectors from thermal and squeezed coherent field states. We prove (for arbitrary spatial dimensions, switching profiles and detector smearings) that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 Petar Simidzija , Eduardo Martin-Martinez

It is now widely believed that if the gravitational field is (perturbatively) quantum, it would entangle two massive objects (in spatial superpositions) which were otherwise unentangled to begin with. Recently, actual table-top experiments…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-27 Suddhasattwa Brahma , Abhinove Nagarajan Seenivasan

Entanglement has long been the subject of discussion by philosophers of quantum theory, and has recently come to play an essential role for physicists in their development of quantum information theory. In this paper we show how the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rob Clifton , Hans Halvorson

In this paper, we propose a method to probe entanglement in a theoretically inaccessible quantum system with either a discrete or continuous basis. Our approach leverages insights into the entanglement distribution within a four-partite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-10 Pablo C. López Vázquez , Luis M. Piñuelas , Gustavo Montes

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

Dynamical algebra notion of quantum degrees of freedom is utilized to study the relation between quantum dynamical integrability and generalized entanglement. It is argued that a quantum dynamical system generates generalized entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-03-29 Nikola Buric

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 investigate a scenario where quantum correlations affect the gravitational field. We show that quantum correlations between particles occupying different positions have an effect on the gravitational field. We find that the small…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-05 David Edward Bruschi

Magic is the quantum resource allowing a quantum computer to perform operations that cannot be simulated efficiently by classical computation. As such, generating magic in a quantum system is crucial for achieving quantum advantage. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-04 Ron Nyström , Nicola Pranzini , Esko Keski-Vakkuri

Many states of linear real scalar quantum fields (in particular Reeh-Schlieder states) on flat as well as curved spacetime are entangled on spacelike separated local algebras of observables. It has been argued that this entanglement can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-10 Maximilian H. Ruep

It is shown that by means of local interactions between a quantized relativistic field and a pair of non-entangled atoms, entanglement can be extracted from the vacuum and delivered to the atoms. The resulting mixed state of the atoms can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Benni Reznik

We employ an approach wherein vacuum entanglement is directly probed in a controlled manner. The approach consists of having a pair of initially nonentangled detectors locally interact with the field for a finite duration, such that the two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Benni Reznik , Alex Retzker , Jonathan Silman