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The locality principle fulfillment in the Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect is analyzed from the point of view of a self-sufficient potential formalism based on so-called gradient hypothesis in electrodynamics. The "magnetic" kind of AB effect is…

General Physics · Physics 2013-07-02 Alexander Gritsunov , Natalie Masolova

It is proved that the phase shift of a polarized neutron interacting with a spatially uniform time-dependent magnetic field, demonstrates the same physical principles as the magnetic Aharonov-Bohm effect. The crucial role of inert objects…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 E. Comay

Magneto-oscillations of the electric dipole moment are predicted and analyzed for a single-electron nanoscale ring pierced by a magnetic flux (an Aharonov-Bohm ring) and subjected to an electric field in the ring's plane. These oscillations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-11 A. M. Alexeev , M. E. Portnoi

The inversion of cause and effect in the classic description of electromagnetism, gives rise to a conceptual error which is at the bottom of many paradoxes and exceptions. At present, the curious fact that unipolar induction or the Faraday…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Albert Serra

Certain gauge transformations may act non-trivially on physical states in quantum electrodynamics (QED). This observation has sparked the yet unresolved question of how to characterize allowed boundary conditions for gauge theories. Faddeev…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-21 Thomas C. Bachlechner

The gauge invariant non local quantum dynamics of the Aharonov-Bohm effect can be tested experimentally by measuring the instantaneous shift of the velocity distribution occurring when the particle passes by the flux line. It is shown that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-25 T. Kaufherr

Nonequilibrium steady states are explicitly constructed for a noninteracting electron model of an Aharonov-Bohm (AB) ring with a quantum dot (QD) with the aid of asymptotic fields. The Fano line shapes and AB oscillations are shown to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 Junko Takahashi , Shuichi Tasaki

We show that the linking of a semiclassical path of a charged particle with a knotted magnetic solenoid results in the Aharonov-Bohm effect. The phase shift in the wave function is proportional to the flux intersecting a certain connected…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-02-16 Roman V. Buniy , Thomas W. Kephart

Resorting to a Gedankenexperiment which is very similar to the famous Aharonov-Bohm proposal it will be shown that, in the case of a Minkowskian spacetime, we may use a nonrelativistic quantum particle and a noninertial coordinate system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Camacho

This research paper delves into the study of a non-relativistic quantum system, considering the interplay of non-inertial effects induced by a rotating frame and confinement by the Aharonov-Bohm (AB) flux field with potential in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-31 Faizuddin Ahmed , Houcine Aounallah , Prabir Rudra

The effect of non-equilibrium constraints and dephasing on the circulating currents in molecular junctions are analyzed. Circulating currents are manifestations of quantum effects and can be induced either by externally applied bias or an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-28 Hari Kumar Yadalam , Upendra Harbola

It is analysed Aharonov-Bohm-type effects when a spinless quantum particle is in an elastic medium with the distortion of a vertical line into a vertical spiral. By confining the spinless particle to a cylindrical box, the analogue of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-04 W. C. F. da Silva , K. Bakke

Although the Aharonov-Bohm and related effects are familiar in solid state and high energy physics, the nonlocality of these effects has been questioned. Here we show, for the first time, that the Aharonov-Bohm effect has two very different…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-19 Yakir Aharonov , Eliahu Cohen , Daniel Rohrlich

We take a negative delta function impurity in one arm of a quasi one dimensional Aharonov-Bohm ring and demonstrate abrupt phase changes across a quasi bound state of the negative delta function potential. We give a new mechanism for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 P. Singha Deo

We study an ensemble of random waves subject to the Aharonov-Bohm effect. The introduction of a point with a magnetic flux of arbitrary strength into a random wave ensemble gives a family of wavefunctions whose distribution of vortices…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-01 Alexander J H Houston , Martin Gradhand , Mark R Dennis

A novel kind of nonlocal, macroscopic Aharonov-Bohm effect involving two topologically linked superconducting rings made out of two different materials, namely, lead and tin, is suggested for experimental observation, in which the lead ring…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-05-29 Raymond Chiao

It has been suggested that the magnetic Aharonov-Bohm effect can be interpreted equally well as being due to a phase shift associated with an electron in an interferometer enclosing a magnetic flux, or as a phase shift associated with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 J. D. Franson

We propose a quantum system in which the winding number of rotations of a particle around a ring can be monitored and emerges as a physical observable. We explicitly analyze the situation when, as a result of the monitoring of the winding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-22 Dmitri V. Averin , Christoph Bruder

We investigate the properties of a two-dimensional quantum ring under rotating and external magnetic field effects. We initially analyse the Landau levels and inertial effects on them. Among the results obtained, we emphasize that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-21 Luís Fernando C. Pereira , Edilberto O. Silva

Quantum-mechanical theory for scattering of nonrelativistic charged particles with spin by a penetrable magnetic vortex is elaborated. The scattering differential cross section is shown to consist of two terms, one describing diffraction on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 Yurii A. Sitenko