Department of Physics and Astronomy: Publications and Other Research
Date of this Version
Spring 3-2015
Citation
Published in Foundations of Physics, March 2015, Volume 45, Issue 3, pp 333-353
doi: 10.1007/s10701-015-9866-9
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10701-015-9866-9
Abstract
We report that upon excitation by a single pulse, a classical harmonic oscillator immersed in the classical electromagnetic zero-point radiation exhibits a discrete harmonic spectrum in agreement with that of its quantum counterpart. This result is interesting in view of the fact that the vacuum field is needed in the classical calculation to obtain the agreement.
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Published by Springer International Publishing AG. Copyright © Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015. Used by permission.
Attached below is a superceded version by the same authors: "Quantized Excitation Spectrum of the Classical Harmonic Oscillator in Zero-Point Radiation," Physical Review Letters (212).