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The electric Aharonov-Bohm effect -- a time-dependent scalar potential imparting a measurable phase shift on electrons in a region free of electromagnetic fields -- has never been experimentally tested in its original formulation with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Renato Vieira dos Santos

It is shown that the phase of the hidden momentum in Aharonov-Bohm (AB) solenoid effect is equal in magnitude to the phase of the electron but with opposite sign. The phase of the hidden momentum is equal to that obtained by the energy of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-01-04 Y. Ben-Aryeh

Phase relaxation of electrons transferring through an electromechanical transistor is studied using the Aharonov-Bohm interferometer. With the approach of quantum master equation, the phase properties of an electron are numerically analyzed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Wenxi Lai , Yunhui Xing , Zhongshui Ma

We predict the force-free scalar Aharonov-Bohm effect of a Cooper pair box in an electric field at a distance without forming a closed path of the interfering charges. The superposition of different charge states plays a major role in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-02 Young-Wan Kim , Kicheon Kang

The Aharonov-Bohm (AB) phase is usually associated with a line integral of the electromagnetic vector potential generated by an external current source, such as a solenoid. According to this interpretation, the AB phase of a nonclosed path…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-21 A. Hayashi

The independence of the Aharonov-Bohm phase shift on particle velocity is one of its defining properties. The classical counterpart to this dispersionless behavior is the absence of forces along the direction of motion of the particle. A…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-03 Herman Batelaan , Maria Becker

In the seminal works from Santos and Gozalo [Europhys. Lett. $\mathbf{45}$, 418 (1999)] and Marletto and Vedral [Phys. Rev. Lett. $\mathbf{125}$, 040401 (2020)], it is shown how the Aharonov-Bohm effect can be described as the result of an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-05 Pablo L. Saldanha

Aharonov-Bohm effect is a quantum mechanical phenomenon that attracted the attention of many physicists and mathematicians since the publication of the seminal paper of Aharonov and Bohm [1] in 1959. We consider different types of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 Gregory Eskin

In this article we demonstrate a sense in which the one-particle quantum mechanics (OPQM) and the classical electromagnetic four-potential arise from quantum field theory (QFT). In addition, the classical Maxwell equations are derived from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-10 Benliang Li , Daniel W. Hewak , Qi Jie Wang

It is well-known that the electric and magnetic Aharonov-Bohm effects may be formally described on equal footing using the four-vector potential in a relativistic framework. We propose an illustrative manifestation of both effects in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Samuel Marcovitch , Yakir Aharonov , Tirza Kaufferr , Benni Reznik

It is frequently stated that the electromagnetic vector potential acquires a fundamental role in quantum physics, whereas classically it only represents a convenient, but by no means necessary, way of representing the electromagnetic field.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-02 Vlatko Vedral

A theoretical analysis of the excitation of an infinitely long solenoid by oscillating current has revealed the existence of specific potentials in the space outside the solenoid, which can affect electron diffraction in an experiment…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. G. Chirkov , A. N. Ageev

The Aharonov-Bohm (A-B) effect showed that the phase of electron wave pattern could be changed by the excluded electromagnetic field, the region where electromagnetic field is zero. This apparent non-local effect has been explained by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-18 Jay Solanki

The Aharonov-Bohm effect is a physical phenomenon in which the quantum state of a charged particle acquires a phase shift that is directly proportional to the magnetic flux, $\Phi$, due to a (classical) magnetic field, ${\mathbf B}$, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Manvendra Somvanshi , D. Jaffino Stargen

The Aharonov-Bohm effect is a genuine quantum effect typically characterized by a measurable phase shift in the wave function for a charged particle that encircles an electromagnetic field located in a region inaccessible to the mentioned…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-14 Jose A. R. Cembranos , David García-López , Zoe G. del Toro

Motivated by recent developments of hydrodynamical quantum mechanical analogs [J. W. M. Bush, Annu. Rev. Fluid Mech. 47, 269-292 (2015)] we provide a relativistic model for a classical particle coupled to a scalar wave-field through a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-28 Pierre Jamet , Aurélien Drezet

Hamilton-Jacobi equation which governs classical mechanics and electrodynamics explicitly depends on the electromagnetic potentials (A,{\phi}), similar to Schroedinger equation. We derived the Aharonov-Bohm effect from Hamilton-Jacobi…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-11 Alexander Ershkovich

We study a system of electrons moving on a noncommutative plane in the presence of an external magnetic field which is perpendicular to this plane. For generality we assume that the coordinates and the momenta are both noncommutative. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 B. Harms , O. Micu

We propose a feasible laboratory interferometry experiment with matter waves in a gravitational potential caused by a pair of artificial field-generating masses. It will demonstrate that the presence of these masses (and, for moving atoms,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-06-08 Michael A. Hohensee , Brian Estey , Paul Hamilton , Anton Zeilinger , Holger Mueller

A theoretical analysis of the excitation of an infinitely long solenoid by oscillating current has revealed the existence of specific potentials in the space outside the solenoid, which can affect electron diffraction in an experiment…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. N. Ageev , A. G. Chirkov