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Optics and Spectroscopy, 2023 Volume 131, Issue 5, Page 711 (Mi os1366)

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

Language: English

DOI: 10.21883/os.2023.05.55725.1027-22



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