Physics of Wave Processes and Radio Systems
Entanglement of atoms induced by thermal noise in the presence of initial atomic coherence
Евгений Константинович Башкиров
Abstract
In this article, author investigated the dynamics of entanglement of two dipole-coupled natural or artificial two-level atoms (qubits) interacting nonresonantly with the intensive one-mode cavity thermal field. Author found an exact solution of the quantum Liouville equation for the full density matrix of the system two atoms + field mode for a coherent initial state of atoms in the dressed states representation. The full system density matrix is used to calculate the two-atom reduced density matrix and to calculate the quantitative criterion for atom-atom entanglement ‒ negativity. The results of computer simulation of the time dependence of negativity showed that in the case of a model with nonresonant interaction, the presence of initial atomic coherence leads to a significant decrease in the maximum degree of atomic entanglement, in contrast to the model with resonant interaction of atoms and a field. For the resonance model, the initial atomic coherence greatly enhances the degree of atomic entanglement.