Harvesting correlations from thermal and squeezed coherent states

TL;DR

This paper investigates how Unruh-DeWitt detectors harvest entanglement and mutual information from thermal and squeezed coherent states, revealing how temperature and squeezing influence harvesting efficiency and entanglement robustness.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive analysis of entanglement and mutual information harvesting from thermal and squeezed states, including effects of temperature, squeezing, and spatial inhomogeneity.

Findings

Entanglement harvesting decreases with temperature, while mutual information increases linearly.

Squeezed states enable more entanglement harvesting and reduce decay with spatial separation.

Entanglement harvesting from squeezed states is independent of coherent amplitude but depends on squeezing amplitude.

Abstract

We study the harvesting of entanglement and mutual information by Unruh-DeWitt particle detectors from thermal and squeezed coherent field states. We prove (for arbitrary spatial dimensions, switching profiles and detector smearings) that while the entanglement harvesting ability of detectors decreases monotonically with the field temperature $T$, harvested mutual information grows linearly with $T$. We also show that entanglement harvesting from a general squeezed coherent state is independent of the coherent amplitude, but depends strongly on the squeezing amplitude. Moreover, we find that highly squeezed states i) allow for detectors to harvest much more entanglement than from the vacuum, and ii) ensure that the entanglement harvested does not decay with their spatial separation. Finally we analyze the spatial inhomogeneity of squeezed states and its influence on harvesting, and investigate how much entanglement one can actually extract from squeezed states when the squeezing is bandlimited.