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Comment on "Aharonov-Casher and Scalar Aharonov-Bohm Topological Effects"

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2015-06-17 v1 Quantum Physics

Abstract

In this Comment we point out (i) that the Hamiltonian, Eq. (17) in the Letter(Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 070405 (2012)), is not a relativistic Hamiltonian, (ii) then that the conditions in the Letter are irrelevant for a topological AC and SAB effects, and (iii) conclusively that the non-relativistic Hamiltonian employed by Peshkin and Lipkin (Phys. Rev. Lett. 74, 2847 (1995)) has the same U(1)mmU(1)_{mm} gauge structure for a fixed spin and then is not wrong, but their incorrect interpretation of the spin autocorrelations led to the incorrect conclusion.

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@article{arxiv.1311.4011,
  title  = {Comment on "Aharonov-Casher and Scalar Aharonov-Bohm Topological Effects"},
  author = {Taeseung Choi and Sam Young Cho},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1311.4011},
  year   = {2015}
}