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Entanglement dynamics of second quantized quantum fields

We study the entanglement dynamics in the system of coupled quantum fields. We prove that if the coupling is linear, that is if the total Hamiltonian is a quadratic form of field operators, entanglement can only be transferred between the fields. We show that entanglement is produced in the model of the two-mode self-interacting boson field with the characteristic Gaussian decay of coherence in the limit of high number of particles. The interesting feature of this system is that the particles in different modes become entangled even if there is no direct interaction between the modes. We apply these results for analysis of the entanglement dynamics in the two-mode Jaynes-Cummings model in the limit of large number of photons. While the photon-atom interaction is assumed to conserve helicity the photons with different polarizations still get entangled due to an effective interaction mediated by the atom with the characteristic entanglement time linearly increasing with the number of photons.