title: Photocount distribution of photons emitted from three sites of a human body.
abstract: Spontaneous photon emission from 30 sites on the skin of a live human subject is measured at different times and on different days. Signals from three representative sites of low, intermediate and high intensities are selected for further analysis. Fluctuations in these signals are measured by the probabilities of detecting different numbers of photons in a bin. The probabilities have non-classical features and are well described by the signal in a quantum squeezed state of photons. Measurements with bins of three sizes yield same values of three parameters of the squeezed state. A procedure for making correction due to background noise is developed. The correction changes the parameters of the quantum state. The new state appears more like a coherent state of photons.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Biology, Utrecht University, 3501 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands. meluna.wijk@wxs.nl
authors.forename: Roeland
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Van Wijk
authors.forename: Eduard P A
authors.initials: EP
authors.lastname: Van Wijk
authors.forename: Rajendra P
authors.initials: RP
authors.lastname: Bajpai
mesh_terms: D055592:Biophysical Phenomena; D001703:Biophysics; D005546:Forehead; D006225:Hand; D006801:Humans; D017785:Photons; D011789:Quantum Theory; D012867:Skin; D013848:Thigh