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Article
Publication Date
7-7-2026
Abstract
We present the emergence of coherent two-photon backscattering, a manifestation of weak localization, in multiple scattering of maximally entangled pure and fully mixed two-photon states and examine the effect of entanglement and classical correlations. Quantum correlations in backscattering are investigated for finite three-dimensional disordered structures in the weak localization regime, as well as systems of a small number of scatterers with specified spatial arrangements. No assumptions are made about the statistical behavior of the scattering matrix elements. Furthermore, we study the interplay between quantum correlations induced by multiple scattering and the correlations that may be present in the illumination fields, and how they are manifested in the output modes. We study the effect of the dimensionality of the entanglement and the angular distribution of the jointly measurable photon pairs on the emergence of enhancement and angular quantum correlations and show how quantum correlations can be used as a probe of the entanglement dimensionality. We show that by increasing the disordered material density, the width of the coherent two-photon backscattering cones increases, in accordance with the reduction of the mean free path length within the structure.
Recommended Citation
Estakhris NM and Norris TB 2026 Coherent two-photon backscattering and induced angular quantum correlations in multiple-scattered two-photon states of the light. J. Phys. Photonics 8 025054. https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7647/ae70df
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This article was originally published in Journal of Physics: Photonics, volume 8, issue 2, in 2026. https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7647/ae70df