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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 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

We study the entanglement entropy in a relativistic quantum field theory for regions which are not included in a single spatial hyperplane. This geometric configuration cannot be treated with the Euclidean time method and the replica trick.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-09-30 David D. Blanco , Horacio Casini

We examine the condition necessary for extracting entanglement from a quantum field through the use of two local modes A and B (detector modes). We show that Simon's entanglement criterion for the bipartite Gaussian state can be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-30 Yuki Osawa , Yasusada Nambu , Riku Yoshimoto

Entanglement are the non-local correlations permitted by quantum theory, believed to play a fundamental role in a quantum computer. We have investigated these correlations in a number of theoretical models for condensed matter systems. Such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stein Olav Skrøvseth

We investigate the entanglement harvesting phenomenon for static detectors that locally interact with massless scalar fields in the cosmic string spacetime, which, though locally flat, features a conical structure defined by a deficit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-04 Ying Ji , Jialin Zhang , Hongwei Yu

We investigate the effects of relative motion on entanglement harvesting by considering a pair of Unruh-Dewitt detectors moving at arbitrary, but independent and constant velocities, both linearly interacting with the vacuum scalar field.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-06 Cendikiawan Suryaatmadja , Wan Cong , Robert . B. Mann

The generation and control of entanglement in a quantum mechanical system is a critical element of nearly all quantum applications. Molecular systems are a promising candidate, with numerous degrees of freedom able to be targeted. However,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-28 Davis M. Welakuh , Spyros Tserkis , Scott E. Smart , Prineha Narang

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

I present some general ideas about quantum entanglement in relativistic quantum field theory, especially entanglement in the physical vacuum. Here, entanglement is defined between different single particle states (or modes), parameterized…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Yu Shi

This article begins by putting forth a model that shows how the storage and retrieval of information on a wave function that involves quantum entanglement behaves similarly to the concepts of length contraction and time dilation,…

General Physics · Physics 2023-09-01 Christopher I. Timms

We study entanglement entropy in gravity theory with quantum effects. A simplest model is a two dimensional Einstein-Hilbert action . We use an $n$-sheet manifold to obtain an area term of entanglement entropy by summing over all background…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-12 Chen-Te Ma

We review recent literature on the connection between quantum entanglement and cosmology, with an emphasis on the context of expanding universes. We discuss recent theoretical results reporting on the production of entanglement in quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-20 Eduardo Martin-Martinez , Nicolas C. Menicucci

Experiments witnessing the entanglement between two particles interacting only via the gravitational field have been proposed as a test whether gravity must be quantized. In the language of quantum information, a non-quantum gravitational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-12 M. Kemal Döner , André Großardt

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

In this essay based on 0907.2939, we argue that the emergence of classically connected spacetimes is intimately related to the quantum entanglement of degrees of freedom in a non-perturbative description of quantum gravity. Disentangling…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-08 Mark Van Raamsdonk

Quantum contextuality is the notion that certain measurement scenarios do not admit a global description of their statistics and has been implicated as the source of quantum advantage in a number of quantum information protocols. It has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-05 Philip A. LeMaitre

The current interest in laboratory detection of entanglement mediated by gravity was sparked by an information--theoretic argument: entanglement mediated by a local field certifies that the field is not classical. Previous derivations of…

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

Two of us (CM and VV) recently showed how the quantum character of a physical system, in particular the gravitational field, can in principle be witnessed without directly measuring observables of that system, solely by its ability to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-29 C. Marletto , V. Vedral , D. Deutsch
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