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The beginning of quantum statistics: A translation of ’’Planck’s law and the light quantum hypothesis’’
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EngineeringQuantum StatisticsLight QuantumQuantum Mechanical PropertyLight QuantaQuantum TheoryQuantum PhysicsQuantum MatterPhase SpaceQuantum OpticsQuantum SciencePhotonicsPhysicsQuantum Statistical MechanicsQuantum InformationEntropyNatural SciencesEntropy ProductionApplied PhysicsQuantum System
The phase space of a light quantum in a given volume is subdivided into ’’cells’’ of magnitude h3. The number of possible distributions of the light quanta of a macroscopically defined radiation over these cells gives the entropy and with it all thermodynamic properties of the radiation.