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Recently there has been speculation that quantization of the electromagnetic field is unnecessary. In support of this viewpoint, a large number of effects — long thought to require such a quantization — have successfully been rederived semiclassically. It has been hoped that in a suitably treated semiclassical theory one could account for all of the present data of atomic physics as well as eliminate the problem of divergences in quantum electrodynamics.
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Clauser, J.F. (1973). Experimental Limitations to the Validity of Semiclassical Radiation Theories. In: Mandel, L., Wolf, E. (eds) Coherence and Quantum Optics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-2034-0_7
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