The phase between 2 waves describing 2 entangled particles?

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Each particle has a wave associated to it according to the principle of wave-particle duality. Between two waves there is a phase difference.

What is this phase difference in the case of entangled particles? 0 degrees? 90 degrees? 180 degrees? Somewhere in between?
 
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It is not true that "every particle has a wave associated with it". Instead, the entire multiple-particle system has a single wave function associated with it.
 
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Nugatory said:
It is not true that "every particle has a wave associated with it". Instead, the entire multiple-particle system has a single wave function associated with it.

Aren't lasers also described by a single wave of big amplitude? The phase difference for laser is considered to be 0 degrees.