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Quantum Beats

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As noted before,(1) one of the most durable of all beliefs about QED is that it endows light with “granular” properties that somehow wipe out the interference effects of classical electromagnetic theory.

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  1. Department of Physics, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, 63130, USA

    E. T. Jaynes

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  1. Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA

    A. O. Barut

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Jaynes, E.T. (1980). Quantum Beats. In: Barut, A.O. (eds) Foundations of Radiation Theory and Quantum Electrodynamics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0671-0_3

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