Classical fields as statistical states

TL;DR

This paper proposes a framework that describes the macroscopic electromagnetic field as a probability distribution over quantum states, linking classical observations to quantum electrodynamics.

Contribution

It introduces a novel approach to characterize classical electromagnetic fields through statistical states derived from quantum electrodynamics.

Findings

Provides a conceptual outline for the statistical description of classical fields.

Suggests a new way to connect quantum states with macroscopic electromagnetic phenomena.

Abstract

We present a rough outline for an idea that characterises the observed, macroscopic realisation of the electromagnetic field in terms of a probability distribution on the underlying quantum electrodynamic state space.