Spontaneous optical emission of a randomly oriented chiral quantum source

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.18617v1
• Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2026 01:37:04 GMT
• Title: Spontaneous optical emission of a randomly oriented chiral quantum source
• Abstract summary: We derive the form of the one-photon state of the electromagnetic field resulting from spontaneous optical emission of a randomly oriented quantum source.<n>We describe how spatial coherence in the emission can be exploited to reveal hidden information about the emitter.
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• Abstract: We derive the form of the one-photon state of the electromagnetic field resulting from spontaneous optical emission of a randomly oriented chiral quantum source, including electric dipole, magnetic dipole, and electric quadrupole contributions to the radiation. We describe how spatial coherence in the emission can be exploited to reveal hidden information about the emitter. This work serves as a prelude and companion piece to our concurrently submitted work \cite{Backlund2026Letter} in which we present the classical and quantum error bounds associated with assigning the handedness of such an emitter.

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