Abstract The field entropy can be regarded as a measurement of the degree of entanglement between the light field and the atoms of a system which is composed of two-level atoms initially in an entangled state interacting with the Schr?dinger cat state. The influences of the strength of light field and the phase angle between the two coherent states on the field entropy are discussed by using numerical calculations. The result shows that when the strength of light field is large enough the field entropy is not zero and the degrees of entanglement between the atoms and the three different states of the light fields are equal. When the strength of the light field is small, the degree of entanglement is maximum in a system of the two entangled atoms interacting with an odd coherent state; it is intermediate for a system of the two entangled atoms interacting with the Yurke--Stoler coherent state, and it is minimum in a system of the two entangled atoms interacting with an even coherent state.
Received: 05 August 2005
Revised: 28 November 2005
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Fund: Project supported by the Higher Education of Hubei Province of China (Grant No Z200522001).
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Liu Tang-Kun (刘堂昆) Entropy evolvement properties in a system of Schrödinger cat state light field interacting with two entangled atoms 2006 Chinese Physics 15 542
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