We present a scheme to generate maximally entangled states of two three-level atoms with a nonresonant cavity by cavity-assisted collisions. Since the cavity field is only virtually excited no quantum information will be transferred from the atoms to the cavity.
@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0303015,
title = {Generation of entangled states of two three-level atoms in cavity QED},
author = {XuBo Zou and K. Pahlke and W. Mathis},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0303015},
year = {2009}
}