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We investigate the effects of field temperature $T^{(f)}$ on the entanglement harvesting between two uniformly accelerated detectors. For their parallel motion, the thermal nature of fields does not produce any entanglement, and therefore,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-28 Dipankar Barman , Subhajit Barman , Bibhas Ranjan Majhi

Particle detector models such as the Unruh-deWitt detector are widely used in relativistic quantum information and field theory to probe the global features of spacetime and quantum fields. These detectors are typically modelled as coupling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-17 Joshua Foo , Sho Onoe , Robert B. Mann , Magdalena Zych

Unruh-DeWitt detectors interacting locally with a quantum field are systems under consideration for relativistic quantum information processing. In most works, the detectors are assumed to be point-like and, therefore, couple with the same…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-05 Antony R. Lee , Ivette Fuentes

We consider two initially entangled Unruh-DeWitt particle detectors and examine how the initial entanglement changes after interacting with a quantum scalar field. As initially nonentangled detectors extract entanglement from the field,…

We study the time-dependence of quantum entanglement between two Unruh-DeWitt detectors, one at rest in a Minkowski frame, the other non-uniformly accelerated in some specified way. The two detectors each couple to a scalar quantum field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-11-21 David C. M. Ostapchuk , Shih-Yuin Lin , Robert B. Mann , B. L. Hu

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 study bipartite entanglement harvesting from the quantum vacuum of a massless scalar field between two subsystems, each composed of a finite number of Unruh-DeWitt detectors. Using perturbation theory, we show that the leading-order…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Santeri Salomaa , Esko Keski-Vakkuri , Sergi Nadal-Gisbert

The behavior of accelerating Unruh-DeWitt detectors coupled with a spinor field in (3+1)-dimensional spacetime is investigated. For a single point-like detector with Gaussian switching function, the transition probability increases with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-26 Dawei Wu , Shan-Chang Tang , Yu Shi

We present a new technique for computing entanglement harvesting with Unruh-DeWitt particle detectors. The method is particularly useful in cases where analytic solutions are rare and the Wightman function is known only via its mode…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-26 Keith K. Ng , Robert B. Mann , Eduardo Martin-Martinez

We consider two accelerating Unruh-DeWitt detectors coupled linearly or quadratically with a scalar field. We show that entanglement can be created by acceleration, and is divergent only when the two detectors coincide. For linear coupling,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-25 Dawei Wu , Shan-Chang Tang , Yu Shi

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

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

So far, entanglement harvesting has been extensively studied in free space setups. Here, we provide a detailed analytical and numerical analysis of entanglement harvesting in cavities. Specifically, we adiabatically couple the quantized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 Jannik Ströhle , Nikolija Momcilovic

We study the extraction of quantum coherence by three static Unruh-DeWitt (UDW) detectors that interact locally with a massless scalar vacuum field in the vicinity of an infinite perfectly reflecting boundary. Depending on the setup, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-30 Shu-Min Wu , Xiao-Ying Jiang , Xiang-Yue Yu , Zhihong Liu , Xiao-Li Huang

We consider acceleration-assisted entanglement harvesting as evidenced in correlations between two accelerating Unruh detectors coupled to a scalar field. We elaborate on earlier studies, which in a stationary phase approximation calculated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-13 Andrew Brainerd , Brian Greene

Recently, Danielson, Satishchandran, and Wald (DSW) have proposed a novel source of decoherence for uniformly accelerated charges and masses in spatial superposition in spacetimes containing a bifurcating Killing horizon. Such an effect can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-05 Levy B. N. Batista , André G. S. Landulfo , Robert B. Mann , George E. A. Matsas

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

We carry out the first investigation of the entanglement and mutual information harvesting protocols for detectors freely falling into a black hole. Working in $(1+1)$-dimensional Schwarzschild black hole spacetime, we consider two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 Kensuke Gallock-Yoshimura , Erickson Tjoa , Robert B. Mann

We apply the master equation with dynamical coarse graining approximation to a pair of detectors interacting with a scalar field. By solving the master equation numerically, we investigate evolution of negativity between comoving detectors…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-06 Shingo Kukita , Yasusada Nambu

We initiate an investigation into features of vacuum entanglement as probed by accelerated quantum probes in curved spacetime. Focussing specifically on de Sitter (dS) spacetime with curvature $\Lambda$, we obtain several exact results…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-19 Mayank , K. Hari , Subhajit Barman , Dawood Kothawala