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Quantum optics
Angular distributions and polarization correlations of two-photon spherical states
Alexanian Moorada, Vanik E. Mkrtchianb a Department of Physics and Physical Oceanography, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, NC 28403-5606, USA
b Institute for Physical Research, Armenian Academy of Sciences,
0203 Ashtarak, Republic of Armenia
Abstract:
The properties of angular polarization at the center of mass reference of a system of two-photon spherical Landau states in momentum space are analyzed in detail. The angular distributions for fixed values of $J$ and $M$ do not depend on the parity of $P$, but are determined by two different functions of the polar angle between the relative momentum and the quantization axes. Two-photon polarization density matrices are derived for each value of $J$, $M$ and $P$. The correlations of the linear polarization of individual photons are analyzed in detail. In addition to the usual correlation laws for $J\ge2$, expressed in terms of $\sin$ and $\cos$ angles between analyzer orientations, correlations are found in terms of the sum of analyzer orientation angles.
Keywords:
two-photon states, quantum entanglement, parity, selection rules, helicity, polarization, angular momentum, Wigner function, Stokes parameters.
Received: 24.09.2021 Revised: 10.02.2022 Accepted: 10.02.2022
Citation:
Alexanian Moorad, Vanik E. Mkrtchian, “Angular distributions and polarization correlations of two-photon spherical states”, Optics and Spectroscopy, 131:5 (2023), 711
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https://www.mathnet.ru/eng/os1366 https://www.mathnet.ru/eng/os/v131/i5/p711
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