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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 the entanglement dynamics of two detectors undergoing uniform acceleration and circular motion within a massive scalar field, while also investigating the influence of the anti-Unruh effect on entanglement harvesting. Contrary to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-06 Yongjie Pan , Jiatong Yan , Sansheng Yang , Baocheng Zhang

It is well-known that the $(1+1)$ dimensional Schwarzschild and spatially flat FLRW spacetimes are conformally flat. This work examines entanglement harvesting from the conformal field vacuums in these spacetimes between two Unruh-DeWitt…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-28 Subhajit Barman , Dipankar Barman , Bibhas Ranjan Majhi

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

In a quantum sense, vacuum is not an empty void but full of virtual particles (fields). It may have long-range properties, be altered, and even undergo phase transitions. It is suggested that long-range properties of a quantum vacuum may be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-28 Shijing Cheng , Wenting Zhou , Hongwei Yu

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

We review Unruh-DeWitt detectors and other models of detector-field interaction in a relativistic quantum field theory setting as a tool for extracting detector-detector, field-field and detector-field correlation functions of interest in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-16 B. L. Hu , Shih-Yuin Lin , Jorma Louko

We study, in the framework of open quantum systems, the entanglement dynamics for a quantum system composed of two uniformly accelerated Unruh-Dewitt detectors interacting with a bath of massive scalar fields in the Minkowski vacuum. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-20 Yuebing Zhou , Jiawei Hu , Hongwei Yu

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

The quantum vacuum has long been known to be characterized by field correlations between spacetime points. These correlations can be swapped with a pair of particle detectors, modelled as simple two-level quantum systems (Unruh-DeWitt…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-29 Matthew P. G. Robbins , Laura J. Henderson , Robert B. Mann

We propose a new type of the Unruh-DeWitt detector which measures the decoherence of the reduced density matrix of the detector interacting with the massless quantum scalar field. We find that the decoherence decay rates are different in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-18 Alexander I Nesterov , Gennady P Berman , Manuel A Rodríguez Fernández , Xidi Wang

We study the properties of the transition probability and entanglement harvesting phenomenon for circularly accelerated detectors locally interacting with massless scalar fields. The dependence of the transition probability on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-30 Jialin Zhang , Hongwei Yu

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

The initial entanglement shared between inertial and accelerated observers degrades due to the influence of the Unruh effect. Here, we show that the Unruh effect can be completely eliminated by the technique of partial measurement. The lost…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-14 Xing Xiao , Ying-Mao Xie , Yao Yao , Yan-Ling Li , Jieci Wang

We study entanglement harvesting in general $d$-dimensional conformal field theories using pointlike Unruh-DeWitt detectors coupled to scalar primary operators. This extends standard harvesting protocols beyond free fields to interacting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Kelly Wurtz , Caroline Lima , Robert C. Myers , Eduardo Martín-Martínez

We present a comparison of the AQFT-based Fewster-Verch framework with the Unruh-DeWitt particle detector models commonly employed in relativistic quantum information and QFT in curved space. We use this comparison to respond to a recent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-14 Daniel Grimmer , Bruno de S. L. Torres , Eduardo Martín-Martínez

We study the system of two localized detectors (oscillators) interacting through a massless quantum field in a vacuum state via an Unruh-DeWitt coupling. This system admits an exact solution providing a good model for addressing fundamental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Theodora Kolioni , Charis Anastopoulos

We present a quantum-optical platform for simulating relativistic detector-field interactions using entangled nonlinear biphoton sources (ENBSs), realized through phase-controlled single-photon frequency-comb (SPFC) sources. By mapping the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Tai Hyun Yoon

The Unruh effect remains a central topic in quantum field theory, although its direct experimental verification continues to be challenging. Recent efforts have therefore focused on indirect detection strategies in which the Unruh effect…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-01 Manuel de Atocha Rodríguez Fernández , Alexander I. Nesterov , Gennady P. Berman , C. Moreno-González

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