title: Complete conditions for entanglement transfer.
abstract: We investigate the conditions to entangle two qubits interacting with local environments driven by a continuous-variable correlated field. We find the conditions to transfer the entanglement from the driving field to the qubits both in dynamical and steady-state cases. We see how the quantum correlations initially present in the driving field play a critical role in the entanglement-transfer process. The system we treat is general enough to be adapted to different physical setups.
authors.affiliation: School of Mathematics and Physics, The Queen's University, Belfast BT7 1NN, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Paternostro
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Son
authors.forename: M S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Kim