English
Related papers

Related papers: Entanglement harvesting in quantum superposed spac…

200 papers

The field space entanglement entropy of a quantum field theory is obtained by integrating out a subset of its fields. We study an interacting quantum field theory consisting of massless scalar fields on a closed compact manifold M. To this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-06 Helmuth Huffel , Gerald Kelnhofer

We investigate the decoherence of an Unruh-DeWitt detector coupled to scalar, electromagnetic, and spinor fields in four-dimensional Minkowski spacetime. By employing the Schwinger-Keldysh influence functional formalism, we derive a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-29 Ran Li , Zhong-Xiao Man , Jin Wang

We consider two Unruh-DeWitt detectors interacting with a massless, minimally coupled scalar field in a $(1+1)$ dimensional Reissner-Nordstr\"om black hole spacetime. In particular, one of the detectors, corresponding to $Alice$, is moving…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-31 Subhajit Barman , Bibhas Ranjan Majhi

Decoherence is the process via which quantum superpositions states are reduced to classical mixtures. Decoherence has been predicted for relativistically accelerated quantum systems, however examples to date have involved restricting the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-16 Daiqin Su , Timothy C. Ralph

Unruh-DeWitt particle detector models are studied in a variety of time-dependent and time-independent settings. We work within the framework of first-order perturbation theory and couple the detector to a massless scalar field. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-10-16 Lee Hodgkinson

Quantum gravity is expected to contain descriptions of semiclassical spacetime geometries in quantum superpositions. To date, no framework for modelling such superpositions has been devised. Here, we provide a new phenomenological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-11 Joshua Foo , Robert B. Mann , Magdalena Zych

A comprehensive study integrating the microscopic structure of spacetime and the principle of quantum superposition is capable of offering a fundamental bottom-up approach for understanding the quantum aspect of gravity. In this paper, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-04 Xiaofang Liu , Changjing Zeng , Jieci Wang

Without a complete theory of quantum gravity, the question of how quantum fields and quantum particles behave in a superposition of spacetimes seems beyond the reach of theoretical and experimental investigations. Here we use an extension…

A quantum inequality for the quantized electromagnetic field is developed for observers in static curved spacetimes. The quantum inequality derived is a generalized expression given by a mode function expansion of the four-vector potential,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Michael J. Pfenning

We revisit the entanglement harvesting protocol when two detectors are in causal contact. We study the role of field-mediated communication in generating entanglement between the two detectors interacting with a quantum field. We provide a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-01 Erickson Tjoa , Eduardo Martín-Martínez

Simultaneity is a well-defined notion in special relativity once a Minkowski metric structure is fixed on the spacetime continuum (manifold) of events. In quantum gravity, however, the metric is not expected to be a fixed, classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Pieter Kok , Ulvi Yurtsever , Samuel L. Braunstein , Jonathan P. Dowling

We investigate how nontrivial topology affects the entanglement dynamics between a detector and a quantum field and between two detectors mediated by a quantum field. Nontrivial topology refers to both that of the base space and that of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-17 Shih-Yuin Lin , Chung-Hsien Chou , Bei-Lok Hu

Entanglement is the key resource for quantum technologies and is at the root of exciting many-body phenomena. However, quantifying the entanglement between two parts of a real-world quantum system is challenging when it interacts with its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-22 Christian Carisch , Oded Zilberberg

We investigate entanglement properties of a recently introduced class of macroscopic quantum superpositions in two-mode mixed states. One of the tools we use in order to infer the entanglement in this non-Gaussian class of states is the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Paternostro , H. Jeong , M. S. Kim

There are many reasons to believe that there is a fundamental minimum length scale below which distances cannot be reliably resolved. One method of constructing a quantum field with a finite minimum length scale is to use bandlimited…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-24 Laura J. Henderson , Nicolas C. Menicucci

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

This thesis investigates the impact of the background magnetic field on correlations or entanglement between pairs created by the background electric field in quantum field theoretic systems in the Minkowski, the primordial inflationary de…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-03 Shagun Kaushal

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

Entanglement has become central for the characterization of quantum matter both in and out of equilibrium. In a dynamical context entanglement exhibits universal linear temporal growth in generic systems, which stems from the underlying…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-13 Arkadiusz Kosior , Markus Heyl

This article investigates quantum entanglement generated within a one-dimensional cavity where one boundary undergoes prescribed acceleration, a setup designed to mimic aspects of Hawking radiation. We quantify quantum correlations using…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-18 José Manuel Montes-Armenteros , Javier Olmedo