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All coherent field states entangle equally

Quantum Physics 2021-12-07 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We analyze the interactions of particle detectors with coherent states of a free scalar field. We find that the eigenvalues of the post-interaction density matrices of i) a single detector, ii) two detectors, and iii) the partial transpose of the latter, are all independent of which coherent state the field was in. A consequence of these results is that a detector pair can harvest the same amount of entanglement from any coherent field state as from the vacuum.

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@article{arxiv.1705.04341,
  title  = {All coherent field states entangle equally},
  author = {Petar Simidzija and Eduardo Martin-Martinez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.04341},
  year   = {2021}
}

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11 pages. RevTeX 4.1. Updated to fix minor typos

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