Almost local generation of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen entanglement in nonequilibrium open systems

local driving. The immediate effect of local driving on modes A and B is single-mode squeezing. Dissipation in the reduced dynamics of the bipartite system transforms this single-mode squeezing into two-mode squeezing (when viewing symmetric and antisymmetric modes) or entanglement (when viewing local modes A and B). This effect is found over a wide temperature range. Suitable pulse shapes yielding significant entanglement can be found even for the case of driving only mode A. These findings are of potential relevance for current experiments with superconducting circuits. They also open new possibilities for teleportation without an explicit state transfer.