Discrete excitation spectrum of a classical harmonic oscillator in zero-point radiation

DOI10.1007/S10701-015-9866-9MaRDI QIDQ2356339zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Wayne Cheng-Wei Huang, Herman Batelaan

Publication date 29 July 2015

Published in Foundations of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1206.6891, https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1148&context=physicsfacpub

zbMATH Keywords

classical dynamicsexcitationharmonic oscillatorquantum mechanicsstochastic electrodynamicsvacuum field

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stochastic mechanics (including stochastic electrodynamics) (81P20) Quantum optics (81V80)

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.

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