Decoherence of entangled states in two-mode cavities
Maciej Janowicz, Arkadiusz Orłowski · Journal of Physics B Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics · 2006
Decoherence of the Schrodinger-cat states in two-mode cavities are discussed. The cat states are assumed to be produced by the measurement of the energy of a three-level atom which have passed through the cavity. The evolution of the field density matrix is obtained from the Lindblad form of the dissipater at zero temperature. It is shown that the decoherence time of the two-mode cat states critically depends on the degree of entanglement. Implications for decoherence of entanglement in the macroscopic scales are discussed.