Research Papers in Physics and Astronomy
Date of this Version
2012
Citation
Physical Review Letters (2012).
Abstract
We report that upon excitation by a single pulse, the classical harmonic oscillator immersed in classical electromagnetic zero-point radiation, as described by random electrodynamics, exhibits a quantized excitation spectrum in agreement to that of the quantum harmonic oscillator. This numerical result is interesting in view of the generally accepted idea that classical theories do not support quantized energy spectra.
Comments
Copyright 2012, American Physical Society. Used by permission.