We develop a Hamiltonian formalism to study energy and position (momentum) correlations between a single Stokes photon and a single material excitation that are created as a pair in the spontaneous Raman scattering process. Our approach allows for intuitive separation of the effects of spectral linewidth, chromatic dispersion, and collection angle on these correlations, and we compare the predictions of the model to experiment. These results have important implications for the use of Raman scattering in quantum protocols that rely on spectrally unentangled photons and collective excitations.

• Received 27 September 2019

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.101.013415