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Physical Review A

Radiative transport for two-photon light

Vadim A. Markel, John C. Schotland

Published Sep 10, 2014• 5 citations
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Abstract

We consider the propagation of two-photon light in a random medium. We show that the Wigner transform of the two-photon amplitude obeys an equation that is analogous to the radiative transport equation for classical light. Using this result, we investigate the propagation of an entangled photon pair.
DOI
10.1103/physreva.90.033815

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