arXiv:quant-ph/0307052 · Physical Review Letters

Environment Induced Entanglement in Markovian Dissipative Dynamics

Fabio Benatti, Roberto Floreanini B, Marco Piani

Published Aug 13, 2003• 409 citations

Abstract

We show that two, noninteracting two-level systems, immersed in a common bath, can become mutually entangled when evolving according to a Markovian, completely positive reduced dynamics.

DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.91.070402

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