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I've got three questions basically.
Ok, depending on what comes out to be true, the 3rd question might be an analogy for neutrino oscillations - you know, how there is a periodic dependence on space in what you measure for the probability of a certain state.
- Do photons actually have only an integer spin +/- 1, or do people really only mean the sign of its chirality? The reason I ask is that I am interested in whether the photon spin is related to its frequency. This leads to the next question.
- Is the basis for Left and Right circularly polarized photons the 'natural' basis for photons? Or is it the linear polarization basis? Photons have spin and so I am betting that the 'natural' basis is the circularly polarized one. But, if it turns out that in (question 1) they all have the same spin frequency, then it presents a problem - the variable frequencies needed to make circular polarization of different colors of light wouldn't match up then because all the different colors would need different frequencies of 'rotation'.
- This last one probably hinges on the first two. Is there a spatial dependence on the probability of finding a circularly polarized photon in a linear polarization state? In other words, will there be periodic points in space where it is more probable to measure a vertical polarizations versus a horizontal polarization - (the periodicity would be based on the frequency of rotation of the circularly polarized photon)?
Ok, depending on what comes out to be true, the 3rd question might be an analogy for neutrino oscillations - you know, how there is a periodic dependence on space in what you measure for the probability of a certain state.