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You know that a blackbody cavity, kept at a given temperature T, will be filled with electromagnetic radiation of a particular spectral form, viz., the Planck spectrum. This is one case where we could have thought of the radiation either as fluctuating electric and magnetic fields, or as a bunch of photons.
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Padmanabhan, T. (2015). Photon: Wave and/or Particle. In: Sleeping Beauties in Theoretical Physics. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 895. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13443-7_21
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