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Magnetic Backgrounds and Noncommutative Field Theory

Popular Physics 2009-11-10 v2 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory General Physics

Abstract

This paper is a rudimentary introduction, geared at non-specialists, to how noncommutative field theories arise in physics and their applications to string theory, particle physics and condensed matter systems.

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@article{arxiv.physics/0401142,
  title  = {Magnetic Backgrounds and Noncommutative Field Theory},
  author = {Richard J. Szabo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0401142},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

26 pages, 3 figures, uses ws-ijmpa.cls; Invited review to be published in International Journal of Modern Physics A; v2: References added