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Backgrounds of squeezed relic photons and their spatial correlations
We discuss the production of multi-photons squeezed states induced by the
time variation of the (Abelian) gauge coupling constant in a string
cosmological context. Within a fully quantum mechanical approach we solve the
time evolution of the mean number of produced photons in terms of the squeezing
parameters and in terms of the gauge coupling. We compute the first (amplitude
interference) and second order (intensity interference) correlation functions
of the magnetic part of the photon background. The photons produced thanks to
the variation of the dilaton coupling are strongly bunched for the realistic
case where the growth of the dilaton coupling is required to explain the
presence of large scale magnetic fields and, possibly of a Faraday rotation of
the Cosmic Microwave Background.Comment: 9 pages in LaTex styl