Entanglement from thermal blackbody radiation

Two noninteracting quantum systems which couple to a common environment with many degrees of freedom initially in thermal equilibrium can become entangled due to the indirect interaction mediated through this heat bath. I examine here the dynamics of reservoir-induced entanglement for a heat bath consisting of a thermal electromagnetic radiation field, such as blackbody radiation or the cosmic microwave background, and show how the effect can be understood as result of an effective induced interaction.