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Advances in Mathematical Physics
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 375182, 15 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/375182
Research Article

Creation of Two-Particle Entanglement in Open Macroscopic Quantum Systems

M. Merkli,1 G. P. Berman,2 F. Borgonovi,3,4 and V. I. Tsifrinovich5

1Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL, A1C 5S7, Canada
2Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, MS B213, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
3Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica, and Interdisciplinary Laboratories for Advanced Materials Physics, Università Cattolica, Via Musei 41, 25121 Brescia, Italy
4Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pavia, Via Bassi 6, 27100 Pavia, Italy
5Department of Applied Physics, Polytechnic Institute of NYU, 6 MetroTech Center, Brooklyn, NY 11201, USA

Received 6 March 2012; Accepted 17 May 2012

Academic Editor: P. G. Kevrekidis

Copyright © 2012 M. Merkli et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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