All coherent field states entangle equally

Petar Simidzija and Eduardo Martín-Martínez
Phys. Rev. D 96, 025020 – Published 24 July 2017

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

© 2017 American Physical Society

Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

Quantum Information, Science & TechnologyParticles & Fields

Authors & Affiliations

Petar Simidzija1,2 and Eduardo Martín-Martínez1,2,3

  • 1Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada
  • 2Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada
  • 3Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 2Y5, Canada

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Vol. 96, Iss. 2 — 15 July 2017

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