  In this work, we consider atomic spontaneous emission in a system consisting
of two identical two-level atoms interacting dispersively with the quantized
electromagnetic field in a high-Q cavity. We investigate the destructive effect
of the atomic decay on the generation of maximally entangled states, following
the proposal by Zheng S B and Guo G C (2000 Phys. Rev. Lett. 85 2392). In
particular, we analyze the fidelity of teleportation performed using such a
noisy channel and calculatethe maximum spontaneous decay rate we may have in
order to realize teleportation.
