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The canonical Aharonov-Bohm effect is usually studied with time-independent potentials. In this work, we investigate the Aharonov-Bohm phase acquired by a charged particle moving in {\it time-dependent} potentials . In particular, we focus…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-29 Max Bright , Douglas Singleton , Atsushi Yoshida

The scattering amplitude of a charged particle from a long hard cylinderical solenoid is derived by solving the time independent Schr\"{o}dinger equation on a double connected plane. It is a summation over the angular momentum quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-31 Oktay Yilmaz

A general method for deriving exact expressions for vector potentials produced by arbitrarily knotted solenoids is presented. It consists of using simple physics ideas from magnetostatics to evaluate the magnetic field in a surrogate…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-01-07 V. V. Sreedhar

We add a confining potential to the Aharonov-Bohm model resulting in no contact of the particle with the solenoid (border); this is characterized by a unique self-adjoint extension of the initial Hamiltonian operator. It is shown that the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-11-20 Cesar R. de Oliveira , Renan G. Romano

The Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect was convincingly demonstrated using a micro-sized toroidal magnet but it is almost always explained using an infinitely-long solenoid or an infinitely-long flux line. The main reason for this is that the formal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-02 Ricardo Heras

The Aharonov-Bohm effect is a fundamental topological phenomenon with a wide range of applications. It consists of a charge encircling a region with a magnetic flux in a superposition of wave packets having their relative phase affected by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-17 Ismael L. Paiva , Pedro R. Dieguez , Renato M. Angelo , Eliahu Cohen

In the Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect, a superposed charge acquires a detectable phase by enclosing an infinite solenoid, in a region where the solenoid's electric and magnetic fields are zero. Its generation seems therefore explainable only by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-29 C. Marletto , V. Vedral

The phase shifts of the Aharonov-Bohm effect are generally determined by means of the partial wave decomposition of the underlying Schrodinger equation. It is shown here that they readily emerge from an o(2,1) calculation of the energy…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 C. R. Hagen

Although there is no force on the electron in Aharonov-Bohm solenoid effect, the electron exerts a force on the solenoid related to the inequality of action and reaction forces of two subsystems in three-system configuration. The AB phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-30 Y. Ben-Aryeh

The Aharonov-Bohm effect is one of the most surprising wonders of the quantum world. The observed solenoid effect, as well as others, shows that a particle is affected by the potential in a region in which there is no force-field. This is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-02 J. Bernabeu , C. Espinoza

The role of Aharonov-Bohm effect in quantum tunneling is examined when a potential is defined on the $S^1$ and has $N$-fold symmetry. We show that the low-lying energy levels split from the $N$-fold degenerate ground state oscillate as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 ChangSoo Park , D. K. Park

We study the impact of Aharonov-Bohm solenoid on the radiation of a charged particle moving in a constant uniform magnetic field. With this aim in view, exact solutions of Klein-Gordon and Dirac equations are found in the magnetic-solenoid…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 V. G. Bagrov , D. M. Gitman , A. Levin , V. B. Tlyachev

The Aharonov-Bohm effect allows one to demonstrate the physical meaningfulness of magnetic vector potential by passing the current in zero magnetic field regions. In the standard (a {\em two-slit-like}) setup a conducting ring is pierced by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-23 Adam Rycerz , Dominik Suszalski

The Aharonov-Bohm effect is the prime example of a zero-field-strength configuration where a non-trivial vector potential acquires physical significance, a typical quantum mechanical effect. We consider an extension of the traditional A-B…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-02-16 Fabio Franchini , Alfred Scharff Goldhaber

The exact wave functions that describe scattering of a charged particle by a confined magnetic field (Aharonov-Bohm effect) and by a Coulomb field are analyzed. It is well known that the usual procedure of finding asymptotic forms of these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Charles M. Sommerfield , Hisakazu Minakata

The Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect highlights the fundamental role of electromagnetic potentials in quantum mechanics, manifesting as a phase shift for a charged particle in field-free regions. While well-established for static magnetic fluxes,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Shan Gao

The Aharonov-Bohm scattering amplitude is calculated in the context of planar gravity with localized sources which also carry a magnetic flux. These sources cause space-time to develop conical singularities at their location, thus…

General Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Marcos Alvarez

The scattering of a nonrelativistic electron on a narrow solenoid of finite length is considered. In this case, the magnetic field outside the solenoid is not zero. Using the eikonal approximation, the differential and total cross sections…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-08-25 A. I. Milstein , I. S. Terekhov

The Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect is a pure quantum effect that implies a measurable phase shift in the wave function for a charged particle that encircles a magnetic flux located in a region \textit{inaccessible} to the particle. Classically,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-23 Xiang Li , Thors Hans Hansson , Wei Ku

We consider a nonrelativistic quantum charged particle moving on a plane under the influence of a uniform magnetic field and driven by a periodically time-dependent Aharonov-Bohm flux. We observe an acceleration effect in the case when the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-07-15 T. Kalvoda , P. Stovicek