Correlation and Entanglement dynamics for two atoms distributed in two isolated thermal cavities

In this paper, correlation dynamics for two two-level atoms distributed in two isolated thermal cavities are studied, where the atomic state is initially prepared in a maximum entangled zero-and-two-excitation superposition state. We use two nonclasscal measures including geometric quantum discord via Schatten one norm and concurrence to analyze correlation dynamics for the two atoms when the two cavities have the same or different mean photon numbers. We find though correlation dynamics for these two measures have different features, they have the same characteristics in some particular time when the nonclassical correlation is robust against thermal photon numbers. This result may be important in quantum information processing and quantum computation.