The behavior of thermal phonons is similar to the photon gas produced by an electromagnetic cavity, wherein photons may be emitted or absorbed by the cavity walls.
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The discrete energy levels of electromagnetic cavities are exploited to produce photons of desired frequencies and thus are essential for nano-or submicrometre-scale laser devices.
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Electrons which are trapped in an electromagnetic cavity are in a bound state and thus organise themselves as they do in a regular atom, thus expressing chemical-like behaviour.
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However, lower-frequency dielectric heating, as described in the aforementioned patent, is ( like induction heating ) an near-field effects that exist in an electromagnetic cavity that is small compared with the wavelength of the electromagnetic field.