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Noncommutativity of Space and Rotation of Polarization of Light in a Background Magnetic Field

M. Chaichian, M. M. Sheikh-Jabbari, A. Tureanu

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/0511323

Abstract

Recently the PVLAS collaboration has reported the observation of rotation of polarization of light propagating in a background magnetic field. In this letter we explore the possibility that such a rotation is a result of noncommutativity in the background space-time. To explain the reported polarization rotation within noncommutative QED we need the noncommutativity parameter θ (30 GeV)-2.

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