Entanglement dynamics for atoms near a reflecting boundary: enhancement and suppression by environment-induced interactions
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Quantum Physics arXiv:2602.23773 (quant-ph) [Submitted on 27 Feb 2026] Title:Entanglement dynamics for atoms near a reflecting boundary: enhancement and suppression by environment-induced interactions Authors:Ying Chen, Hongwei Yu, Jiawei Hu View a PDF of the paper titled Entanglement dynamics for atoms near a reflecting boundary: enhancement and suppression by environment-induced interactions, by Ying Chen and 2 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:We investigate how environment-induced interactions influence the entanglement dynamics of two static atoms placed near a perfectly reflecting boundary. In this setting, the environment-induced interactions include both atom-boundary contributions (position-dependent Lamb shifts) and the induced atom-atom interaction mediated by the field. We show that, regardless of the initial two-atom state, the entanglement dynamics differs qualitatively and quantitatively from predictions that neglect these energy-shift effects. Depending on the geometry and parameter regime, the environment-induced interactions can either enhance entanglement generation -- yielding a larger maximum concurrence and a longer entanglement lifetime -- or suppress it, reducing both the peak concurrence and the survival time. This behavior contrasts sharply with the free-space case, where the environment-induced atom-atom interaction affects entanglement generation only for a restricted class of initial states and does so in an exclusively assisting manner. Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph) Cite as: arXiv:2602.23773 [quant-ph] (or arXiv:2602.23773v1 [quant-ph] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2602.23773 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) Submission history From: Ying Chen [view email] [v1] Fri, 27 Feb 2026 07:58:12 UTC (208 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled Entanglement dynamics for atoms near a reflecting boundary: enhancement and suppression by environment-induced interactions, by Ying Chen and 2 other authorsView PDFHTML (experimental)TeX Source view license Current browse context: quant-ph new | recent | 2026-02 References & Citations INSPIRE HEP NASA ADSGoogle Scholar Semantic Scholar export BibTeX citation Loading... BibTeX formatted citation × loading... Data provided by: Bookmark Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data, Media Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv Toggle alphaXiv (What is alphaXiv?) Links to Code Toggle CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers (What is CatalyzeX?) DagsHub Toggle DagsHub (What is DagsHub?) GotitPub Toggle Gotit.pub (What is GotitPub?) Huggingface Toggle Hugging Face (What is Huggingface?) Links to Code Toggle Papers with Code (What is Papers with Code?) ScienceCast Toggle ScienceCast (What is ScienceCast?) Demos Demos Replicate Toggle Replicate (What is Replicate?) Spaces Toggle Hugging Face Spaces (What is Spaces?) Spaces Toggle TXYZ.AI (What is TXYZ.AI?) Related Papers Recommenders and Search Tools Link to Influence Flower Influence Flower (What are Influence Flowers?) Core recommender toggle CORE Recommender (What is CORE?) Author Venue Institution Topic About arXivLabs arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs. Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax?)