Journal of Physics Conference Series
Dynamics of two Rydbeg atoms successively interacting with a detuned thermal field
Eugene K. Bashkirov
Abstract
The entanglement between two identical two-level atoms successively passing a vacuum or a thermal cavity has been investigated taking into account the detuning. The cases when atoms are initially prepared in the separable two-atom or Bell type entangled atomic states have been considered. It has been shown that thermal field can produce the entanglement between Rydberg atoms successively passing a cavity for all considered initial atomic states. For separable initial atomic states and vacuum state of the cavity the presence of detuning leads to decreasing of the degree of atomic entanglement. For entangled initial atomic states and vacuum state of the cavity the presence of detuning leads to decreasing of the entanglement amplitude oscillations. We have also derived that for thermal field the increasing of the mean photon number leads to decreasing of the entanglement, but the entanglement increases as the detuning increases. For thermal field and small detuning we have established that the effect of sudden death and birth of entanglement takes place and that for large detuning such effect vanishes. Results of the computer simulation are presented.