The digital randomness of black-body radiation
Abstract
The statistical properties of the fractional part of the random energy of a spectral component of black-body radiation have been analysed in the frame of classical Kolmogorovian probability theory. Besides the integer part of the energy (which satisfies the well-known Planck-Bose distribution), the realizations of its fractional part (related to 'round-off errors') has been represented by binary sequences, like z = 0.001011000010.... It has been shown that the binary variables realized by the 0-s and 1-s at different positions are independent. From the condition of independence the original distribution of the fractional part z can be recovered. If these binary variables have the same distribution, then they describe a temperature-independent random energy, whose expectation value is just the zero-point energy. Thus, the zero-point fluctuation can be considered as a physical representative of an ideal random number generator.
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@article{arxiv.1301.1997,
title = {The digital randomness of black-body radiation},
author = {Sandor Varro},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1301.1997},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
8 pages. 21th International Laser Physics Workshop (LPHYS'12), July 23-27, 2012, Calgary, Canada, Seminar 7, P7.7