Zero-point thermal noise in resistors? A conclusion Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • 2019 Polish Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. The main points of the UPoN-2018 talk and some valuable comments from the Audience are briefly summarized. The talk surveyed the major issues with the notion of zero-point thermal noise in resistors and its visibility; moreover it gave some new arguments. The new arguments support the old view of Kleen that the known measurement data showing zero-point Johnson noise are instrumental artifacts caused by the energy-time uncertainty principle. We pointed out that, during the spectral analysis of blackbody radiation, another uncertainty principle is relevant, that is, the location-momentum uncertainty principle that causes only the widening of spectral lines instead of the zero-point noise artifact. This is the reason why the Planck formula is correctly confirmed by the blackbody radiation experiments. Finally a conjecture about the zero-point noise spectrum of wide-band amplifiers is shown, but that is yet to be tested experimentally.

published proceedings

  • Metrology and Measurement Systems

author list (cited authors)

  • Kish, L. B.

citation count

  • 0

complete list of authors

  • Kish, LB

publication date

  • January 2019