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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…

Quantum field theory is completely characterized by the field correlations between spacetime points. In turn, some of these can be accessed by locally coupling to the field simple quantum systems, a.k.a. particle detectors. In this work, we…

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 demonstrate that the future and left Rindler wedges of Minkowski spacetime are entangled, leading to the Unruh effect. Similarly, the past and right Rindler wedges are also entangled. We propose a protocol to extract this entanglement…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-10 Pravin Kumar Dahal , Kieran Hymas

Separate regions in space are generally entangled, even in the vacuum state. It is known that this entanglement can be swapped to separated Unruh-DeWitt detectors, i.e., that the vacuum can serve as a source of entanglement. Here, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-03-23 Mathieu Cliche , Achim Kempf

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

We explore entanglement harvesting using two Unruh-DeWitt (UDW) detectors linearly coupled to the scalar density of a massless spin-1/2 field in 1+1 Schwarzschild spacetime. We consider different vacua, including the Boulware,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-04 Nitesh Kumar Dubey , Sanved Kolekar

We consider a pair of two-level Unruh-DeWitt detectors accelerated uniformly in the Minkowski vacuum of a massless neutral scalar field, and analyze, within the perturbation theory, the entanglement extracted from the vacuum into the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 Jun-ichirou Koga , Kengo Maeda , Gen Kimura

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 investigate entanglement harvesting in AdS$_4$. Applying the general results of [Phys. Rev. D 97, 125011 (2018)], we consider two scenarios: one where two particle detectors are geodesic, with equal redshift; and one where both are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-19 Keith K. Ng , Robert B. Mann , Eduardo Martin-Martinez

We consider the entanglement dynamics between two Unruh-DeWitt detectors at rest separated at a distance $d$. This simple model when analyzed properly in quantum field theory shows many interesting facets and helps to dispel some…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-04-15 Shih-Yuin Lin , B. L. Hu

In this paper, we investigate the quantum coherence extraction {between} two accelerating Unruh-DeWitt detectors, coupling to a scalar field in $(3+1)$-dimensional Minkowski spacetime. We find that quantum coherence as a nonclassical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-11 Jiafan Wang , Jingjun Zhang , Jun Feng

In pursuit of a full-fledged theory of quantum gravity, operational approaches offer insights into quantum-gravitational effects produced by quantum superposition of different spacetimes not diffeomorphic to one another. Recent work applies…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-17 Lakshay Goel , Everett A. Patterson , María Rosa Preciado-Rivas , Mahdi Torabian , Robert B. Mann , Niayesh Afshordi

In this paper, we investigate the effects of Lorentz violation on correlations harvesting, specifically focusing on the harvested entanglement and harvested mutual information between two Unruh-DeWitt detectors interacting with a quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-10 Xiaofang Liu , Wentao Liu , Zhilong Liu , Jieci Wang

The entanglement harvesting protocol is an operational way to probe vacuum entanglement. This protocol relies on two atoms, modelled by Unruh-DeWitt detectors, that are initially unentangled. These atoms then interact locally with the field…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-07 Qidong Xu , Shadi Ali Ahmad , Alexander R. H. Smith

One consequence of the cosmic censorship conjecture is that any topological structure will ultimately collapse to within the horizons of a set of black holes, and as a result, an external classical observer will be unable to probe it.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-19 Laura J. Henderson , Su Yu Ding , Robert B. Mann

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 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

We analyzed how entanglement harvesting is affected by the performance of a measurement on the quantum field. The measurement on the field is modelled as the coupling of a particle detector to the field, followed by a projective measurement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-22 Héctor Maeso-García , José Polo-Gómez , Eduardo Martín-Martínez

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