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  "abstract": "By forming hybrid light-matter states, optical cavities offer a route for engineering material properties, however, unambiguously probing the effects of light-matter coupling remains difficult. Here, we show that the polarization-resolved statistics of photons transmitted through a cavity, measurable via $g^{(2)}$, provide one such diagnostic. By relating $g^{(2)}$ to matter correlation functions such as the Raman structure factor, we link photon bunching and antibunching to material properties. By applying this method to the stripy-to-antiferromagnetic transition in the Kitaev-Heisenberg spin model, we find that polarization-dependent patterns of bunching and antibunching encode the magnetic point-group symmetries of each phase and characterize the behavior at the phase boundary. Finally, we predict measuring $g^{(2)}$ for output photon pairs polarized orthogonal to the input field will isolate higher-order light-matter scattering processes that probe higher-order material correlations.",
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  "article_type": "Journal reference: Phys. Rev. B 114, 165130 (2026)",
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      "name": "Benjamin Kass"
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      "name": "Spenser Talkington"
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  "pdf_url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.11550",
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  "published": "2026-09-22",
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  "title": "Polarization-Resolved Photon Statistics of Cavity Quantum Materials",
  "title_text": "Polarization-Resolved Photon Statistics of Cavity Quantum Materials",
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