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Structure in quantum entanglement entropy is often leveraged to focus on a small corner of the exponentially large Hilbert space and efficiently parameterize the problem of finding ground states. A typical example is the use of matrix…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-04-17 Bart Olsthoorn

Quantum entanglement between several particles is essential for applications like quantum metrology or quantum cryptography, but it is also central for foundational phenomena like quantum non-locality. This leads to the problem of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Lisa T. Weinbrenner , Otfried Gühne

We consider the quantum field theory for a scalar model of the electromagnetic field interacting with a system of two-level atoms. In this setting, we show that it is possible to uniquely determine the density of atoms from measurements of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Matti Lassas , Medet Nursultanov , Lauri Oksanen , John C. Schotland

In this thesis, we study aspects of entanglement theory of quantum field theories from an algebraic point of view. The main motivation is to gain insights about the general structure of the entanglement in QFT, towards a definition of an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-30 Diego Pontello

Quantum entanglement is an important resource for next-generation technologies. We show that diffracting systems can supplant beam splitters, and more generally interferometric networks, for entanglement generation -- systems as simple as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-11 Aaron Z. Goldberg , Daniel F. V. James

Creating large-scale entanglement lies at the heart of many quantum information processing protocols and the investigation of fundamental physics. For multipartite quantum systems, it is crucial to identify not only the presence of…

It is conventional to study the entanglement between spatial regions of a quantum field theory. However, in some systems entanglement can be dominated by "internal", possibly gauged, degrees of freedom that are not spatially organized, and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Vijay Balasubramanian , Borun D. Chowdhury , Bartlomiej Czech , Jan de Boer

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

In the context of characterizing the structure of quantum entanglement in many-body systems, we introduce the entanglement contour, a tool to identify which real-space degrees of freedom contribute, and how much, to the entanglement of a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-11-25 Yangang Chen , Guifre Vidal

Nature allows one to explore a manifold of remarkable quantum effects. Most prominently, quantum entanglement can be observed in many-particle systems, between multiple quantized fields, and in hybrid combinations thereof. This diversity,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-04 Jan Sperling , Elizabeth Agudelo

We present here an overview of our work concerning entanglement properties of composite quantum systems. The characterization of entanglement, i.e. the possibility to assert if a given quantum state is entangled with others and how much…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Eckert , O. Gühne , F. Hulpke , P. Hyllus , J. Korbicz , J. Mompart , D. Bruß , M. Lewenstein , A. Sanpera

This paper addresses the following main question: Do we have a theoretical understanding of entanglement applicable to a full variety of physical settings? It is clear that not only the assumption of distinguishability, but also the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gerardo Ortiz , Rolando Somma , Howard Barnum , Emanuel Knill , Lorenza Viola

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

Quantum entanglement, after playing a significant role in the development of the foundations of quantum mechanics, has been recently rediscovered as a new physical resource with potential commercial applications such as, for example,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Pawel Horodecki , Artur Ekert

Classification of entanglement is an important problem in Quantum Resource Theory. In this paper we discuss an embedding of this problem in the context of Topological Quantum Field Theories (TQFT). This approach allows classifying…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-21 Dmitry Melnikov

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

Detecting the structure of spacetime with quantum technologies has always been one of the frontier topics of relativistic quantum information. Here, we analytically study the generation and redistribution of Gaussian entanglement of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-05 Wen-Mei Li , Rui-Di Wang , Hao-Yu Wu , Xiao-Li Huang , Hao-Sheng Zen , Shu-Min Wu

It is pointed out that the entanglement entropy of quantum fields near the horizon of a two-dimensional black hole can be derived by means of the conformal field theory. This can be done in a way analogous to the computation of the entropy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Dmitri V. Fursaev

Quantum entanglement is a key resource for quantum technologies, including emerging ground-to-satellite quantum communication. In such a scenario, an important challenge to be overcome is to consider entanglement between two or more quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-10 Yannick Noel Freitag , Julien Pinske , Jan Sperling

Quantum entanglement can manifest itself in the narrowing of wavepackets. We define the phenomenon of phase entanglement and describe its effect on the interpretation of spatial localization experiments.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. W. Chan , J. H. Eberly