Effects of dissipation on nonlocal microwave fields

We apply Monte Carlo wave-function-simulation methods to study the effects of dissipation on a recently proposed technique to generate entangled states of relevance for quantum teleportation. We find that a high degree of quantum entanglement can be preserved for damping rates achievable with presently available cavities. We further determine the effects of dissipation in an atom tagging scheme relevant for quantum complementarity experiments.