Zero-point thermal noise in resistors? A conclusion

• Autorzy: Kish Laszlo B.

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DOI

10.24425/mms.2019.126337

• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

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The main points of the UPoN-2018 talk and some valuable comments from the Audience are briefly summarized. The talk surveyed the major issues with the notion of zero-point thermal noise in resistors and its visibility; moreover it gave some new arguments. The new arguments support the old view of Kleen that the known measurement data “showing” zero-point Johnson noise are instrumental artifacts caused by the energy-time uncertainty principle. We pointed out that, during the spectral analysis of blackbody radiation, another uncertainty principle is relevant, that is, the location-momentum uncertainty principle that causes only the widening of spectral lines instead of the zero-point noise artifact. This is the reason why the Planck formula is correctly confirmed by the blackbody radiation experiments. Finally a conjecture about the zero-point noise spectrum of wide-band amplifiers is shown, but that is yet to be tested experimentally.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Fluctuation Dissipation Theorem; resistors and fermionic versus bosonic systems; time-energy uncertainty principle versus location-momentum uncertainty principle

• Wydawca: Komitet Metrologii i Aparatury Naukowej PAN
• Czasopismo: Metrology and Measurement Systems
• Rocznik: 2019
• Tom: Vol. 26, nr 1
• Strony: 3--11
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 22 poz., rys., wykr., wzory

Twórcy

autor

Kish Laszlo B.

• Texas A&M University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College Station, TX 77843-3128, USA

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Uwagi

1. Journal version of the opening paper presented at the 8th International Conference on Unsolved Problems of Noise (UPoN-2018, chaired by Janusz Smulko), Gdańsk, Poland, 9–13 July 2018. The meeting was dedicated to the 70th birthday of Michael F. Shlesinger.

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2. Opracowanie rekordu w ramach umowy 509/P-DUN/2018 ze środków MNiSW przeznaczonych na działalność upowszechniającą naukę (2019).