Infrared Lorentz violation and slowly instantaneous electricity

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作者
Dvali, G
Papucci, M
Schwartz, MD
机构
[1] NYU, Dept Phys, Ctr Cosmol & Particle Phys, New York, NY 10003 USA
[2] Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Phys, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[3] Lawrence Berkeley Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.191602
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
We study a modification of electromagnetism which violates Lorentz invariance at large distances. In this theory, electromagnetic waves are massive, but the static force between charged particles is Coulomb, not Yukawa. At very short distances the theory looks just like QED. But for distances larger than 1/m the massive dispersion relation of the waves can be appreciated, and the Coulomb force can be used to communicate faster than the speed of light. In fact, electrical signals are transmitted instantly, but take a time similar to 1/m to build up to full strength. After that, undamped oscillations of the electric field are set in and continue until they are dispersed by the arrival of the Lorentz-obeying part of the transmission. Experimental constraints imply that the Compton wavelength of the photon may be as small as 6000 km. This bound is weaker than for a Lorentz-invariant mass, essentially because the Coulomb constraint is removed.
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