Abstract
The quantum theory of noise developed in the preceding Letter is extended by showing that because of interaction with the electromagnetic field, an alternating current carried by a beam of electrons emerging from some scattering process will present phase fluctuations with a spectrum. These fluctuations are expected in any ac current. They have similar power spectra, also determined by infrared radiative corrections, to dc noise.
- Received 16 December 1974
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.34.1495
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