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Quantum energy teleportation across a lattice and the continuum

Kazuki Ikeda (池田一毅)

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Phys. Rev. D 114, 045016 – Published 21 August, 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/6yq9-7szd

Abstract

Quantum energy teleportation (QET) has been studied in continuum field theory and in lattice many-body systems, but the relation between the two within a single interacting model is still not well understood. To address this question, we consider the massive Thirring model, equivalently the sine-Gordon theory. In the continuum, the trigonometric measurement is a weak binary positive operator-valued measure (POVM), and its leading signal is set by a conserved-current correlator in the bosonized theory, with both gapless behavior and gapped large-distance asymptotics. On the lattice, the conventional protocol does not access this neutral current sector. For Alice’s local measurement, a lattice U(1) selection rule removes the neutral current contribution from Bob’s subsystem, and the separated signal lies in charged sectors. On the same lattice Hamiltonian we construct a neutral current protocol whose weak signal is exactly a coarse-grained current correlator and whose extracted energy scales quadratically with the measurement strength. This identifies the neutral sector shared by the lattice and continuum descriptions, while separating it from the charged sector that governs the conventional qubit protocol.

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Phys. Rev. D 114, 045016– Published 21 August, 2026
  • Received 13 April 2026
  • Accepted 11 August 2026
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