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: Received: 9 February 2023 / Approved: 9 February 2023 / Online: 9 February 2023 (10:28:46 CET)
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Tiefenbrunner, W. The Light Quantum as Replicator: Phase Copying by Photon-pair Interaction Mediated by Matter. Preprints2023, 2023020162. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202302.0162.v1.
Tiefenbrunner, W. The Light Quantum as Replicator: Phase Copying by Photon-pair Interaction Mediated by Matter. Preprints 2023, 2023020162. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202302.0162.v1.
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Tiefenbrunner, W. The Light Quantum as Replicator: Phase Copying by Photon-pair Interaction Mediated by Matter. Preprints2023, 2023020162. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202302.0162.v1.
Tiefenbrunner, W. The Light Quantum as Replicator: Phase Copying by Photon-pair Interaction Mediated by Matter. Preprints 2023, 2023020162. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202302.0162.v1.
Abstract
The selection equation (replicator equation) has been independently discovered not only in various fields of biology (population genetics, ecology, prebiotic evolution, and sociobiology), but also in laser theory, where it accounts for the emergence of coherent light. Selection theory (replicator dynamics) is an ensemble theory, i. e., it describes the entire system rather than individual events, neglecting details in favor of a statistical view. However, the underlying processes at the individual level are well known in biology. For light quanta, this is not the case, because quantum theory says nothing about individual events. In the Copenhagen interpretation even the existence of causality on "quantum level" is denied. A large number of recent publications, however, makes this interpretation seem questionable.In the present paper, therefore, an attempt is made to describe the basic interactions between light and matter, as far as they are relevant for the emergence of coherent light in the laser (a photon pair interaction mediated by matter is postulated), and to apply replicator dynamics on this basis. Starting point are papers of A. Einstein about the interaction of light and matter as well as the photoelectric effect. Both theories are slightly modified. Furthermore, the double-slit experiment is investigated and finally the emergence of coherent light by density-dependent selection of photons of different phase in a laser-like model. The relationship between “mean fitness”, information content of the photon ensemble and the amplitude of the light is also analyzed.
Keywords
replicator; replicator dynamics; replicator equation; density-dependent selection; information; en-tropy; photon; light quantum; laser; interaction of radiation and matter; double-slit experiment
Subject
PHYSICAL SCIENCES, General & Theoretical Physics
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