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Angular distributions and polarization correlations of the two-photon spherical states

Quantum Physics 2024-01-09 v2

Abstract

We have analyzed in detail the angular polarization properties in the center of mass reference frame of Landau's two-photon spherical states in momentum space. The angular distributions for fixed values of JJ and MM do not depend on the parity but are defined by two different functions of the polar angle between the relative momentum and the quantization axes. The two-photon polarization density matrices are derived for each values of JJ, MM, and PP. The linear polarization correlations of individual photons are analyzed in detail. We find, besides the usual correlation laws for J2J\geq 2 in terms of sinsin and coscos of the angle between the orientation of the analyzers, correlations in terms of the sum of the orientation angles of the analyzers.

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@article{arxiv.2109.14984,
  title  = {Angular distributions and polarization correlations of the two-photon spherical states},
  author = {Moorad Alexanian and Vanik E. Mkrtchian},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.14984},
  year   = {2024}
}