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Preslav Asenov

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arXiv2026

Quantum Fisher information of the Klein--Gordon and Dirac vacua

The quantum Fisher information (QFI) of the vacuum of three quantum field theories is evaluated with respect to the mass parameter of each theory. All field theories are considered on a $(d+1)$-dimensional Euclidean spacetime. We consider the Klein-Gordon field and the free Dirac field. For the free KG case, we find a $m^{d-2}$ dependence of the QFI, and thus no dependence for $d=2$, in agreement with the holographic duality characterizing the theory. The vacuum QFI with respect to the free Dirac field mass is shown to be UV-divergent for $d=2$ and $d=3$, mass-dependent for $d=1$, and zero for $d=0$.

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arXiv2026

Bell Test of Photons from Electron-Positron Annihilation via POVM-based Compton Polarimetry

Quantum entanglement between gamma-ray photons emitted following electron-positron annihilation is expected to be maximal and may be characterized via non-classical polarization correlations. However, this is difficult to verify experimentally because there are no established schemes that approach ideal projective-polarization measurements for high-energy photons. Hence, polarization entanglement between MeV-scale annihilation photons has not yet been conclusively demonstrated. We develop here a framework that models polarization measurements of high-energy photons via Compton polarimetry, employing the formalism of positive operator-valued measures (POVMs). We extend the POVM description to sequences of repeated interactions and show that the measurement converges toward an ideal projective measurement of linear polarization as the number of interactions increases. We demonstrate that this progressive improvement in measurement sharpness can enable the experimental violation of CHSH inequalities.

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arXiv2026

QEDtool: A Python package for numerical quantum information in quantum electrodynamics

This is the manual of the first version of QEDtool, an object-oriented Python package that performs numerical quantum electrodynamics calculations, with focus on full state reconstruction in the internal degrees of freedom, correlations and entanglement quantification. Our package rests on the evaluation of Feynman amplitudes in the momentum-helicity basis within a relativistic framework. Users can specify both pure and mixed initial scattering states in polarization space. From the specified initial state and Feynman amplitudes, QEDtool reconstructs correlations that fully characterize the quantum polarization and entanglement within the final state. These quantities can be expressed in any inertial frame by arbitrary, built-in Lorentz transformations.

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arXiv2025

Quantum Estimation in QED Scattering

We tackle the issue of estimating dynamical parameters in quantum electrodynamics. We numerically compute the quantum Fisher information matrix (QFIM) of physical parameters in electron-muon and Compton scattering at tree level. In particular, we consider the estimation of centre-of-mass three-momentum magnitude and polar scattering angle through measurements on the internal degrees of freedom (helicity or polarisation) of the scattered particles. Computations are carried out for pure and maximally mixed initial states. The QFIM values are then used to compute the quantum Cramér-Rao lower bounds on the estimations at hand. Further, we compare such ultimate bounds to the classical Fisher information of local polarisation or helicity degrees of freedom.

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