Entanglement between two atoms successively passing a thermal cavity taking into account detuning and atomic coherence

摘要

The entanglement between two identical two-level atoms successively passing the thermal cavity has been investigated taking into account the detuning. The case when atoms are initially prepared in the Bell types entangled atomic states has been considered. It has been shown that for 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.