Can one treat the blackbody radiation as a stochastic process of photon emission? If so, what stochastic process is it (perhaps a Poisson process?)?
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Wikipedia: An example of light that exhibits super-Poissonian statistics is thermal light. – Mauricio Jul 05 '22 at 16:44
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Related thread: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/434987/why-does-classical-light-always-result-in-super-poissonian-statistics – Mauricio Jul 05 '22 at 16:45
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@Mauricio so what specific stochastic process is it? ''super-Poissonian'' is perhaps a bit too general. – Shadumu Jul 05 '22 at 17:01
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$(\Delta N)^2=\langle N\rangle (\langle N\rangle +1)$ – Mauricio Jul 05 '22 at 17:09
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@Mauricio I understand this is the variance of the photon count in a time window. I'm asking if this is described by some specific stochastic process? – Shadumu Jul 05 '22 at 17:18
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Are you asking if the process has a name? It is at best called thermal or super-Poissonian. You can look for the whole derivation of the statistics in any photon statistics resource. – Mauricio Jul 05 '22 at 17:24
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@Mauricio more like if there is a mathematical treatment that describes it as a stochastic process – Shadumu Jul 05 '22 at 18:01
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Let us continue this discussion in chat. – Mauricio Jul 05 '22 at 18:02