It is shown in the Markovian approximation that the relaxation of two atoms noninteracting with each other in the field of a common thermostat results in the entanglement of atomic states. With time, this entanglement either vanishes or takes a stationary value depending on the initial conditions.
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А. М. Башаров (2002) studied this question.
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