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Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 051601 (2010) [4 pages]

Non-Pauli Transitions from Spacetime Noncommutativity

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A. P. Balachandran1,2, Anosh Joseph1, and Pramod Padmanabhan1,2
1Department of Physics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244-1130, USA
2The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, CIT Campus, Taramani, Chennai, India 600 113

Received 2 April 2010; published 26 July 2010

The consideration of noncommutative spacetimes in quantum theory can be plausibly advocated from physics at the Planck scale. Typically, this noncommutativity is controlled by fixed “vectors” or “tensors” with numerical entries like θμν for the Moyal spacetime. In approaches enforcing Poincaré invariance, these deform or twist the method of (anti)symmetrization of identical particle state vectors. We argue that the Earth’s rotation and movements in the cosmos are “sudden” events to Pauli-forbidden processes. This induces (twisted) bosonic components in state vectors of identical spinorial particles. These components induce non-Pauli transitions. From known limits on such transitions, we infer that the energy scale for noncommutativity is ≳1024  TeV. This suggests a new energy scale beyond the Planck scale.

© 2010 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.051601
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.051601
PACS:
11.10.Nx, 03.65.-w, 05.30.-d, 11.30.Cp