Entanglement of quantum oscillators coupled to different heat baths

Abstract

We study the non-equilibrium dynamics of two coupled oscillators interacting with their own heat baths of quantum scalar fields at different temperature $T_1$ and $T_2$ with bilinear couplings between them. We particularly focus on the entanglement or inseparability property of their quantum states. The critical temperatures of two respective oscillators, $T_{1c}$ and $T_{2c}$, higher than which the entanglement disappears, can be determined. It is found that when two damping parameters are largely different, say $\gamma_1 \ll \gamma_2$, the critical temperature $T_{1c}$ with respect to the frequency $\Omega_+$, the higher frequency among two normal modes frequencies, can be very large, $T_{1c} \gg \Omega_+$, while $T_{2c} \propto \Omega_+$ with the possibility of hot entanglement. The entanglement of two oscillators with the temperature-dependent damping parameters $\gamma_{1;2,T}$ from heat baths is also discussed.