  The transfer of entangled, quantum correlated, flying photons from a squeezed
field to single-mode cavities is investigated. It is shown that, while the
transfer of photons begins immediately after the input squeezed field is turned
on, the time at which quantum correlations start to be transferred to the
cavities is strongly dependent on the initial population of the cavities. For
the initially empty cavities, the transfer of quantum correlations begins
immediately after the squeezed field is turned on, but it is delayed by a
certain time interval when the cavities are initially populated. We find that
the transfer of the quantum correlations is postponed until the one-photon
states of the system are almost completely depopulated. In other words, the
system "waits" for the population of the single-photon states to decay out
before starting to build up the quantum correlation between the cavities. The
delay time interval is independent of the number of photons initially present
in the system, but it is dependent on the decay rates of the cavities and can
be varied (controlled) when the cavities decay with different rates. It is
shown that the delayed transfer of the quantum correlation is directly related
to the presence of quantum jumps, which transfer the population from the
entangled to incoherent mixture states.
