NATURAL CAPACITY OF A SYSTEM OF 2 2-LEVEL ATOMS AS A QUANTUM INFORMATION CHANNEL

A system of two closely spaced atoms interacting through a vacuum elec tromagnetic field is considered. It is demonstrated that radiative dec ay in such a system resulting from photon exchange gives rise to a def inite amount of information related to interatomic communication. Join t distributions of detection probabilities of atomic quanta and the co rresponding amount of communication information are calculated.