Noncommutativity and the Aharonov-Bohm Effect
arXiv:hep-th/0101081
Abstract
The possibility of detecting noncommutive space relics is analyzed by using the Aharonov-Bohm effect. If space is non-commutative, it turns out that the holonomy receives kinematical corrections that tend to diffuse the fringe pattern. This fringe pattern has a non-trivial energy dependence and, therefore, one could observe noncommutative effects by modifying the energy of the incident electrons beam in the Tonomura experimental arrangement
Original title changed, several parts rewritten and a section about a possible experimental detection of spatial noncommutativity is added