Constraints on Early Dark Energy from Isotropic Cosmic Birefringence

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Polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is sensitive to new physics violating parity symmetry, such as the presence of a pseudoscalar "axionlike" field. Such a field may be responsible for early dark energy (EDE), which is active prior to recombination and provides a solution to the so-called Hubble tension. The EDE field coupled to photons in a parity-violating manner would rotate the plane of linear polarization of the CMB and produce a cross-correlation power spectrum of $E$- and $B$-mode polarization fields with opposite parities. In this paper, we fit the $EB$ power spectrum predicted by the photon-axion coupling of the EDE model with a potential $V(ϕ)\propto [1-\cos(ϕ/f)]^3$ to polarization data from Planck. We find that the unique shape of the predicted $EB$ power spectrum is not favored by the data and obtain a first constraint on the photon-axion coupling constant, $g=(0.04\pm 0.16)M_{\text{Pl}}^{-1}$ (68% CL), for the EDE model that best fits the CMB and galaxy clustering data. This constraint is independent of the miscalibration of polarization angles of the instrument or the polarized Galactic foreground emission. Our limit on $g$ may have important implications for embedding EDE in fundamental physics, such as string theory.

7 pages, 3 figures, 1 table. Accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters. The stacked EB power spectrum is publicly available at https://github.com/LilleJohs/Observed-EB-Power-Spectrum

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