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What could be and how to come up with a mathematical formula for the local electric field inside a blackbody cavity?
I asked a similar question here more than two years ago. I did not get an answer to my complete satisfaction. I would like to reiterate the problem again.
The local electric field of a monochromatic ...
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Light Polarizer and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
I have stumped myself with a thought experiment of my own devising.
Suppose I take a beam of wholly depolarised, but otherwise plane wave light. Its von Neumann entropy per photon is $\log(2)$ nats ...
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