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electrodynamics">quantum electrodynamics</a> and possibly detect <a href="/wiki/Dark_matter" title="Dark matter">dark matter</a> at the Department of Physics and <a href="/wiki/Istituto_Nazionale_di_Fisica_Nucleare" title="Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare">National Institute of Nuclear Physics</a> in <a href="/wiki/Ferrara" title="Ferrara">Ferrara</a>, <a href="/wiki/Italy" title="Italy">Italy</a>. It searches for <a href="/wiki/Vacuum_polarization" title="Vacuum polarization">vacuum polarization</a> causing nonlinear optical behavior in magnetic fields. Experiments began in 2001 at the INFN <a href="/wiki/Laboratori_Nazionali_di_Legnaro" title="Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro">Laboratory in Legnaro</a> (Padua, Italy) and continue today with new equipment. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background">Background</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=PVLAS&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Nonlinear electrodynamic effects in vacuum have been predicted since the earliest days of <a href="/wiki/Quantum_electrodynamics" title="Quantum electrodynamics">quantum electrodynamics</a> (QED), a few years after the discovery of <a href="/wiki/Positron" title="Positron">positrons</a>. One such effect is vacuum magnetic birefringence, closely connected to elastic light-by-light interaction. The effect is extremely small and has never yet been observed directly. Although today QED is a very well-tested theory, the importance of detecting light-by-light interaction remains. First, QED has always been tested in the presence of charged particles either in the initial state or the final state. No tests exist in systems with only photons. More generally, no interaction has ever been observed directly with only gauge bosons present in the initial and final states. Second, to date, the evidence for zero-point quantum fluctuations relies entirely on the observation of the <a href="/wiki/Casimir_effect" title="Casimir effect">Casimir effect</a>, which applies to photons only. PVLAS deals with the fluctuations of virtual charged particle-antiparticle pairs (of any nature, including hypothetical <a href="/wiki/Millicharged_particle" class="mw-redirect" title="Millicharged particle">millicharged particles</a>) and therefore the structure of fermionic quantum vacuum: to leading order, it would be a direct detection of loop diagrams. Finally, the observation of light-by-light interaction would be an evidence of the breakdown of the superposition principle and of <a href="/wiki/Maxwell%27s_equations" title="Maxwell's equations">Maxwell's equations</a>. One important consequence of a nonlinearity is that the velocity of light would depend on the presence or not of other electromagnetic fields. PVLAS carries out its search by looking at changes in the polarisation state of a <a href="/wiki/Linear_polarization" title="Linear polarization">linearly polarised</a> <a href="/wiki/Laser_beam" class="mw-redirect" title="Laser beam">laser beam</a> after it passes through a <a href="/wiki/Vacuum" title="Vacuum">vacuum</a> with an intense <a href="/wiki/Magnetic_field" title="Magnetic field">magnetic field</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The birefringence of the vacuum in <a href="/wiki/Quantum_electrodynamics" title="Quantum electrodynamics">quantum electrodynamics</a> by an external field is generally credited to <a href="/wiki/Stephen_L._Adler" title="Stephen L. Adler">Stephen L. Adler</a>, who presented the first general derivation in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0003-4916(71)90154-0">Photon splitting and photon dispersion in a strong magnetic field</a> in 1971. Experimental investigation of the photon splitting in atomic field<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was carried out at the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.inp.nsk.su/activity/hw/rokk1m/index.ru.htm">ROKK-1</a> facility at the <a href="/wiki/Budker_Institute_of_Nuclear_Physics" title="Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics">Budker institute</a> in 1993-96. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Design">Design</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=PVLAS&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Design"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>PVLAS uses a high-finesse Fabry-Perot optical cavity. The first setup, used until 2005, sent a linearly polarized laser beam through vacuum with 5T magnetic field from a superconducting magnet to an ellipsometer. After upgrades to avoid fringe fields, several runs were done at 2.3T and 5T, excluding a prior claim of <a href="/wiki/Axion" title="Axion">axion</a> detection. It was determined that an optimized optical setup was needed for discovery potential. A prototype with much improved sensitivity was tested in 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2013 the upgraded apparatus at INFN Ferrara with permanent magnets and horizontal ellipsometer was set up<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and began data taking in 2014 </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Results">Results</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=PVLAS&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Results"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>PVLAS investigated vacuum polarization induced by external magnetic fields.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> An observation of the rotation of light polarization by the vacuum in a magnetic field was published in 2006.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Data taken with an upgraded setup excluded the previous magnetic rotation in 2008<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and set limits on <a href="/wiki/Photon-photon_scattering" class="mw-redirect" title="Photon-photon scattering">photon-photon scattering</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> An improved limit on nonlinear vacuum effects was set in 2012:<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A<sub>e</sub> < 2.9·10<sup>−21</sup> T<sup>−2</sup> @ 95% C.L. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=PVLAS&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/DAMA/NaI" title="DAMA/NaI">DAMA/NaI</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/DAMA/LIBRA" title="DAMA/LIBRA">DAMA/LIBRA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/CERN_Axion_Solar_Telescope" title="CERN Axion Solar Telescope">CAST</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=PVLAS&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://pvlas.ts.infn.it"><i>PVLAS website</i></a> - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) – Trieste</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://home.cern/about/experiments/osqar"><i>OSQAR experiment</i></a> – CERN</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://inspirehep.net/experiments/1110297">PVLAS experiment</a> record on <a href="/wiki/INSPIRE-HEP" title="INSPIRE-HEP">INSPIRE-HEP</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References_and_notes">References and notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=PVLAS&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: References and notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ts.infn.it/physics/experiments/pvlas/"><i>The PVLAS experiment</i></a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFAkhmadalievKezerashviliKlimenkoLee2002" class="citation journal cs1">Akhmadaliev, Sh. 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Superconducting Thermometers">CRESST</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/CUORE" title="CUORE">CUORE</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Directional_Dark_Matter_Detector&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Directional Dark Matter Detector (page does not exist)">D3</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/DAMA/LIBRA" title="DAMA/LIBRA">DAMA/LIBRA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/DAMA/NaI" title="DAMA/NaI">DAMA/NaI</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=DAMIC&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="DAMIC (page does not exist)">DAMIC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/DarkSide_(dark_matter_experiment)" title="DarkSide (dark matter experiment)">DarkSide</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=DARWIN&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="DARWIN (page does not exist)">DARWIN</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/DEAP" title="DEAP">DEAP</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=DM-Ice&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="DM-Ice (page does not exist)">DM-Ice</a></li> <li><a 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