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View SchemaHow photon detectors remove vacuum fluctuations
| Authors | Emilio Santos |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0207073 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0207073 |
Abstract
The main argument against the reality of the electromagnetic quantum vacuum fluctuations is that they do not activate photon detectors. In order to met this objection I propose a model of photocounting which, in the simple case of a light signal with constant intensity, predicts a counting rate proportional to the intensity, in agreement with the standard quantum result.
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