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The exact electromagnetic field description of photon emission, absorption, and radiation pattern. II
Dale M Grimes1, Craig A Grimes
1Department of Electrical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA.
Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
|August 12, 2003
Abstract:
This is the second of two articles, the first of which contains a proposed explanation of quantum theory based upon electron nonlocality and classical electrodynamics. In this second article classical field theory is used to describe a unique field set for exchange of radiation between an atomic eigenstate and the far field. The radiation satisfies the thermodynamic condition of reversibility as described by Boltzmann, Planck, and Einstein. The exchanged radiation supports the kinematic properties of photons, and it can be emitted or absorbed by a vanishingly small volume.