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Savukov, V. V. Anisotropic polarization, predicted as a result of the diffraction of blackbody radiation at a reflective phase grating with ideal conductivity

Publication in Journal of Optical Technology

For Russian citation (Opticheskii Zhurnal):

Савуков В.В. Анизотропная поляризация, прогнозируемая как результат дифракции излучения черного тела на отражающей фазовой решетке с идеальной проводимостью // Оптический журнал. 2012. Т. 79. № 10. С. 7–15.

Savukov V. V. Anisotropic polarization, predicted as a result of the diffraction of blackbody radiation at a reflective phase grating with ideal conductivity [in English] // Opticheskii Zhurnal. 2012. V. 79. № 10. P. 7–15.

For citation (Journal of Optical Technology):

V. V. Savukov, "Anisotropic polarization, predicted as a result of the diffraction of blackbody radiation at a reflective phase grating with ideal conductivity," Journal of Optical Technology. 79(10), 614-620 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1364/JOT.79.000614

Abstract:

In the course of analyzing the axiomatic principles that form the basis of statistical physics, the validity of the postulate that all the isoenergetic microstates of a closed system are equally probable was checked. This article reports the results of numerically modelling the interaction of thermodynamically equilibrium blackbody radiation with a reflective phase diffraction grating that possesses ideal conductivity. Cases are found in which anisotropy of the polarization parameters is guaranteed to appear inside a closed volume of initially homogeneous blackbody radiation, resulting in a formal decrease of its Boltzmann entropy as a consequence of deviation from the microcanonical Gibbs distribution. This is apparently caused by the discontinuous character of the change of the phase trajectories of the photons during diffraction, which makes the physical system under consideration nonergodic.

Keywords:

diffraction, polarization, indicatrix, scattering, diffuse

OCIS codes: 000.6590, 050.1940, 260.5430, 290.2648, 290.5855

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