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How photon detectors remove vacuum fluctuations

Emilio Santos

quant-pharXiv:quant-ph/0207073

Abstract

The main argument against the reality of the electromagnetic quantum vacuum fluctuations is that they do not activate photon detectors. In order to met this objection I propose a model of photocounting which, in the simple case of a light signal with constant intensity, predicts a counting rate proportional to the intensity, in agreement with the standard quantum result.

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