Neoclassical Theory of Electromagnetic Interactions

Edwin Albert Power, T. Thirunamachandran

Anatoli V. Babin, Alexander Figotin

Fritz Rohrlich

Hyatt M. Gibbs

The resonance-fluorescence experiment described in the preceeding paper and found to be consistent with quantum electrodynamics is analyzed using the neoclassical theory (NCT) of radiation, i.e., the electromagnetic field is not quantized. We have not found a value of the dynamic shift for which the NCT computer simulation is consistent with the data. NCT predicts an increased radiative lifetime as appreciable excitation is achieved; the observed decay curves were simple exponentials with characteristic times independent of the fractional excitation. The observed oscillatory dependence of the integrated fluorescence upon input pulse area has not been reproduced by a NCT simulation either. Objections raised against this disproof of NCT are answered.

Mitchel Weissbluth

Jacques Moret‐Bailly, J -L Monnot

The stochastic electrodynamics (SED) or neoclassical electrodynamics (NED) explains a lot of optical experiments from the hypothesis that a stochastic electromagnetic field exists, equivalent to the half quantum per mode of quantum electrodynamics; we show that, in a semi-classical theory, this field must be introduced for coherence; we propose a non-linear classical model of the interaction between an atom and an electromagnetic field, to build a semi-classical theory.