How photon detectors remove vacuum fluctuations
Quantum Physics
2007-05-23 v2
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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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0207073,
title = {How photon detectors remove vacuum fluctuations},
author = {Emilio Santos},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0207073},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
8 pages, no figures, corrected error in solution of differential equation, conclusions are essentially the same