Abstract:
It is shown in the Markovian approximation that the relaxation of two atoms noninteracting with each other in the field of a common thermostat results in the entanglement of atomic states. With time, this entanglement either vanishes or takes a stationary value depending on the initial conditions.
Citation:
A. M. Basharov, “Entanglement of atomic states upon collective radiative decay”, Pis'ma v Zh. Èksper. Teoret. Fiz., 75:3 (2002), 151–154; JETP Letters, 75:3 (2002), 123–126