Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2001-06-06
Phys.Lett. B517 (2001) 457-461
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
Revtex, 11 pages, v3: corrected an estimation on page 7 of deviation from the speed of light
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0370-2693(01)00995-9
With the help of the Seiberg-Witten map, one can obtain an effective action of a deformed QED from a noncommutative QED. Starting from the deformed QED, we investigate the propagation of photons in the background of electromagnetic field, up to the leading order of the noncommutativity parameter. In our setting (both the electric and magnetic fields are parallel to the coordinate axis $x^1$ and the nonvanishing component of the noncommutativity parameter is $\theta^{23}$), we find that the electric field has no effect on the propagation of photons, but the velocity of photons can be larger than the speed of light ($c=1$) when the propagating direction of photons is perpendicular to the direction of background magnetic field, while the light-cone condition does not change when the propagating direction is parallel to the background magnetic field. The causality associated with the superluminal photons is discussed briefly.
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