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Phys. Rev. D 76, 105012 (2007) [13 pages]

Blackbody radiation in κ-Minkowski spacetime

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Hyeong-Chan Kim1,*, Chaiho Rim2,†, and Jae Hyung Yee1,‡
1Department of Physics, Yonsei University, Seoul 120-749, Republic of Korea
2Department of Physics and Research Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju 561-756, Korea

Received 11 June 2007; revised 5 September 2007; published 14 November 2007

We have computed the blackbody radiation spectra in κ-Minkowski spacetime, using the quantum mechanical picture of massless scalar particles as well as an effective quantum field theory picture. The blackbody radiation depends on how the field theory (and thus how the κ-Poincaré algebra) handles the ordering effect of the noncommutative spacetime. In addition, there exists a natural momentum cutoff of the order κ, beyond which a new real mode takes its shape from a complex mode and the old real mode flows out to be a new complex mode. However, the new high momentum real mode should not be physical since its contributions to the blackbody radiation spoil the commutative limit.

© 2007 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.76.105012
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.76.105012
PACS:
03.70.+k, 11.15.Tk

*hckim@phya.yonsei.ac.kr

rim@chonbuk.ac.kr

jhyee@yonsei.ac.kr