Abstract
We analyze the interactions of particle detectors with coherent states of a free scalar field. We find that the eigenvalues of the postinteraction 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.
- Received 11 May 2017
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.96.025020
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Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)
Quantum Information, Science & TechnologyParticles & Fields