{
  "id": "0707.2137",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2007-07-14T09:55:25.000Z",
  "updated": "2007-07-14T09:55:25.000Z",
  "title": "A classical model for a photodetector in the presence of electromagnetic vacuum fluctuations",
  "authors": [
    "Trevor W. Marshall",
    "Emilio Santos"
  ],
  "comment": "14 pages, no figures",
  "categories": [
    "quant-ph"
  ],
  "abstract": "The main argument against the reality of the electromagnetic vacuum fluctuations is that they do not activate photon detectors. In order to meet this objection we propose a classical model of a photodetector which, in the simple case of a light signal with constant intensity, gives a counting rate which is a non-linear function of the intensity. For sufficiently large signal intensity, the counting rate is proportional to the intensity, in agreement with the standard quantum results, but there is a dark rate when the signal intensity is low.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2007-07-14T09:55:25.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "electromagnetic vacuum fluctuations",
      "classical model",
      "photodetector",
      "sufficiently large signal intensity",
      "counting rate"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 14,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2007arXiv0707.2137M"
    }
  }
}