ISSN:
1089-7658
Source:
AIP Digital Archive
Topics:
Mathematics
,
Physics
Notes:
The limiting Gibbs state and dynamics for free thermal photons was investigated in a previous work by means of an operator algebraic approach. For the one-photon Hamiltonian in a local region, the square root of the Laplacian with Dirichlet boundary conditions was used. In the present work, the energy density distribution for thermal photons (Planck's law) in a nearly arbitrary physical cavity is derived in the thermodynamic limit. For the cavity, only the segment property and a zero-set boundary is assumed, which is the weakest possible requirement at its border. For the thermodynamic limit, the cavity is monotonously dilated from a fixed interior point. In this sense, the work is also a contribution to Weyl's problem, the asymptotic distribution of the eigenvalues of the wave equation in the infinite space approximation. The calculation uses comparisons of functions of the Laplacians defined in different regions of the Euclidean space by means of the ordering of positivity preserving operators.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.529912
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