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We introduce a general class of long-range magnetic potentials and derive high velocity limits for the scattering operators in quantum mechanics, in the case of two dimensions. We analyze the high velocity limits in the presence of an…
We analyze spin-0 relativistic scattering of charged particles propagating in the exterior, $\Lambda \subset \mathbb{R}^3$, of a compact obstacle $K \subset \mathbb{R}^3$. The connected components of the obstacle are handlebodies. The…
In this paper we consider the Schr\"odinger operator in ${\mathbb R}^3$ with a long-range magnetic potential associated to a magnetic field supported inside a torus ${\mathbb{T}}$. Using the scheme of smooth perturbations we construct…
The study of obstacle scattering for the Klein-Gordon equation in the presence of long-range magnetic potentials is addressed. Previous results of the authors are extended to the long-range case and the results the authors previously proved…
The scattering of spin-polarized electrons in an Aharonov--Bohm vector potential is considered. We solve the Pauli equation in 3+1 dimensions taking into account explicitly the interaction between the three-dimensional spin magnetic moment…
The Aharonov-Bohm effect is a fundamental and controversial issue in physics. At stake are what are the fundamental electromagnetic quantities in quantum physics, if magnetic fields can act at a distance on charged particles and if the…
The Aharonov--Bohm effect in a model system described by the generalized Schr\"{o}dinger equation is considered. The scattering cross section is calculated in the standard formulation: an electron beam impinges on a long impenetrable…
We consider the Aharonov-Bohm effect for the Schroedinger operator and the related inverse problem in an exterior domain the 2-dim. Euclidean space with Dirichlet boundary condition. We study the structure and asymptotics of generalized…
We study the theory of scattering for a Schr"odinger equation in an external time dependent magnetic field in the Coulomb gauge, in space dimension 3. The magnetic vector potential is assumed to satisfy decay properties in time that are…
In this paper we review some aspects of the scattering Aharonov-Bohm effect and Berry's phase. Specifically, the problem of scattering of free 2d electrons on the system of an arbitrary number of parallel, infinitely thin and infinitely…
In an N-body quantum system with a constant electric field, by inverse scattering, we uniquely reconstruct pair potentials, belonging to the optimal class of short-range potentials and long-range potentials, from the high-velocity limit of…
The scattering of an incident plane wave on two Aharonov-Bohm vortices with opposite fluxes is considered in detail. The presence of the vortices imposes non-trivial boundary conditions for the partial waves on a cut joining the two…
The inverse scattering theory for many-body systems in quantum mechanics is an important and difficult issue not only in physics---atomic physics, molecular physics and nuclear physics---but also mathematics. The major purpose in this paper…
We consider the scattering of relativistic electrons from a thin magnetic flux tube and perturbatively calculate the order $\alpha$, radiative correction, to the first order Born approximation. We show also that the second order Born…
The celebrated Aharonov-Bohm effect is perhaps the first example in which the the interplay between classical topology and quantum theory was explored. This connection has continued to shed light on diverse areas of physics like quantum…
We study one of the multidimensional inverse scattering problems for quantum systems governed by the Stark Hamiltonians. By applying the time-dependent method developed by Enss and Weder in 1995, we prove that the high-velocity limit of the…
We study multistate Schr\"odinger operators related to molecular dynamics. We consider potentials which do not necessarily decay and prove absence of the singular continuous spectrum and propagation estimates which mean the scattering at…
We study the Aharonov-Bohm effect under the conditions of the Tonomura et al. experiments, that gave a strong evidence of the physical existence of the Aharonov-Bohm effect, and we give the first rigorous proof that the classical Ansatz of…
The Aharonov--Bohm effect is considered as a scattering event with nonrelativistic charged particles of the wavelength which is less than the transverse size of an impenetrable magnetic vortex. The quasiclassical WKB method is shown to be…
Quantum-mechanical scattering off a magnetic vortex is considered, and the optical theorem is derived. The vortex core is assumed to be impermeable to scattered particles, and its transverse size is taken into account. We show that the…