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View SchemaEntanglement generation in atoms immersed in a thermal bath of external quantum scalar fields with a boundary
| Authors | Jialin Zhang, Hongwei Yu |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0611170 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0611170 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevA.75.012101 |
| Journal | Phys.Rev. A75 (2007) 012101 |
Abstract
We examine the entanglement creation between two mutually independent two-level atoms immersed in a thermal bath of quantum scalar fields in the presence of a perfectly reflecting plane boundary. With the help of the master equation that describes the evolution in time of the atom subsystem obtained, in the weak-coupling limit, by tracing over environment (scalar fields) degrees of freedom, we find that the presence of the boundary may play a significant role in the entanglement creation in some circumstances and the new parameter, the distance of the atoms from the boundary, besides the bath temperature and the separation between the atoms, gives us more freedom in manipulating entanglement generation. Remarkably, the final remaining entanglement in the equilibrium state is independent of the presence of the boundary.
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