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View SchemaDisagreement between correlations of quantum mechanics and stochastic electrodynamics in the damped parametric oscillator
| Authors | D. T. Pope, P. D. Drummond, W. J. Munro |
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| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0003131 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0003131 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevA.62.042108 |
| Journal | Phys. Rev. A, 62 (2000) 042108 |
Abstract
Intracavity and external third order correlations in the damped nondegenerate parametric oscillator are calculated for quantum mechanics and stochastic electrodynamics (SED), a semiclassical theory. The two theories yield greatly different results, with the correlations of quantum mechanics being cubic in the system's nonlinear coupling constant and those of SED being linear in the same constant. In particular, differences between the two theories are present in at least a mesoscopic regime. They also exist when realistic damping is included. Such differences illustrate distinctions between quantum mechanics and a hidden variable theory for continuous variables.
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