Nash Equilibrium from Quantum-Field Entanglement

Entanglement harvesting transfers quantum field correlations to localized probes, yet whether these correlations can alter stable strategic behavior has remained unclear. We formulate a quantum-input game in which two Unruh-DeWitt detectors harvest vacuum entanglement from a free massless scalar field in (3+1) -dimensional Minkowski spacetime. A referee converts this state into payoffs using independent question qubits and phase-calibrated local Bell measurements. To leading perturbative order, the mean reward is proportional to the signed entanglement margin sqrt H 2+ Q 2-P, where H is the Hadamard correlation contribution, Q is the Pauli-Jordan causal contribution, and P is the local excitation noise. Away from payoff degeneracies, allowing each player to exit or to choose an early or late interaction yields 1+2n+ trembling-hand perfect equilibria, where n+ counts the positive-reward timing equilibria. For one fixed protocol, five analytically certified settings realize the sequence 7 to3 to1 to7 to1. They represent the spacelike region, the first commutator lobe, central carrier cancellation, the second lobe, and the post-wavefront Huygens regime. Thus, within this fixed quantum-input verification protocol, distinct field-correlation regimes generate different stable strategic structures.