AB and Berry phases for a quantum cloud of charge
High Energy Physics - Theory
2014-11-18 v1 Condensed Matter
Abstract
We investigate the phase accumulated by a charged particle in an extended quantum state as it encircles one or more magnetic fluxons, each carrying half a flux unit. A simple, essentially topological analysis reveals an interplay between the Aharonov-Bohm phase and Berry's phase.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9312131,
title = {AB and Berry phases for a quantum cloud of charge},
author = {Y. Aharonov and S. Coleman and A. S. Goldhaber and S. Nussinov and S. Popescu and B. Reznik and D. Rohrlich and L. Vaidman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9312131},
year = {2014}
}
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10 pages, TAUP 2110-93. TeX