Random non-linear electromagnetic waves in vacuo

P.H. Roberts

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1983, vol. 119, issue 1, 274-290

Abstract: The attempt made by Einstein and Stern to deduce Planck's law by classical reasoning, invoking only the zero-point background radiation, is reconsidered for a sea of electromagnetic waves, the interactions necessary for thermalization being provided by non-linearities in the wave equations rather than by, as in their case, charged particles. It is shown that, when the Cabot-Putterman ansatz is invoked, the resulting Wave-Boltzmann equation possesses Planck's law as steady-state solution.

Date: 1983
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DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(83)90159-0

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