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We study the effect of a time-varying solenoidal vector potential for a quantum particle confined to a ring. The setup appears to be a time-varying version of the Aharonov-Bohm effect, but since the particle moves in the presence of fields,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-19 Patrick Hinrichs , Douglas Singleton , Nader Inan

There is a consensus today that the the main lesson of the Aharonov-Bohm effect is that a picture of electromagnetism based on the local action of the field strengths is not possible in quantum mechanics. Contrary to this statement it is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Lev Vaidman

We propose an electrodynamic Aharonov-Bohm (AB) scheme where a nonzero AB phase difference appears even if the interferometer paths do not enclose a magnetic flux and are subjected to negligible scalar potential differences during the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-30 Pablo L. Saldanha

The most popular interpretation of the Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect is that the electromagnetic potential locally affects the complex phase of a charged particle's wave function in the magnetic field free region. However, since the vector…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-10 Masashi Wakamatsu

The Aharonov-Bohm effect (ABE) for steady magnetic fields is a well known phenomenon. However, if the current in the infinite solenoid that creates the magnetic field is time-dependent, that is in the presence of both magnetic and electric…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 S. Rai Choudhury , Shobhit Mahajan

In their seminal paper Aharonov and Bohm (1959) claimed that electromagnetic fields can act at a distance on charged particles even if they are identically zero in the region of space where the particles propagate. They proposed two…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-07-15 Ricardo Weder

The Aharonov-Bohm effect is a quantum mechanical phenomenon that demonstrates how potentials can have observable effects even when the classical fields associated with those potentials are absent. Initially proposed for electromagnetic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-05 Michael E Tobar , Michael T Hatzon , Graeme R Flower , Maxim Goryachev

The phase of the wave function of charged matter is sensitive to the value of the electric potential, even when the matter never enters any region with non-vanishing electromagnetic fields. Despite its fundamental character, this archetypal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-13 Thomas C. Bachlechner , Matthew Kleban

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

The Aharonov-Bohm effect is measured in a four-terminal open ring geometry based on a Ga[Al]As heterostructure. Two quantum dots are embedded in the structure, one in each of the two interfering paths. The number of electrons in the two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Sigrist , A. Fuhrer , T. Ihn , K. Ensslin , S. E. Ulloa , W. Wegscheider , M. Bichler

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

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

A new classical electromagnetic analysis is presented suggesting that the Aharonov-Bohm phase shift is overwhelmingly likely to arise from a classical lag effect based upon classical electromagnetic forces. The analysis makes use of several…

Classical Physics · Physics 2014-08-27 Timothy H. Boyer

In the Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect, interference fringes are observed for a charged particle in the absence of the local overlap with the external electromagnetic field. This notion of the apparent nonlocality of the interaction or the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-11 Kicheon Kang

Recent works showed that the Aharonov-Bohm (AB) phase difference for a quantum charged particle can be written in terms of electric and magnetic fluxes in a spacetime surface whose boundaries are the possible particle worldlines in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-18 Hiram S. M. Rodrigues , Katson W. O. Arévola , Pablo L. Saldanha

The Aharonov-Bohm effect is investigated in two-dimensional, single-terminal quantum rings in magnetic fields by using time-dependent density-functional theory. We find multiple transport loops leading to the oscillation periods of h/(en),…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-06-22 V. Kotimaki , E. Rasanen

We study the time-dependent Aharonov-Bohm effect on the noncommutative space. Because there is no net Aharonov-Bohm phase shift in the time-dependent case on the commutative space, therefore, a tiny deviation from zero indicates new…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-06-10 Kai Ma , Jian-Hua Wang , Huan-Xiong Yang

Exploring the time-dependent characteristics of AB-type effects holds significant importance in contemporary physics and its practical applications. Here, we delve into the investigation of time-dependent topological effects emerging in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-18 H. O. Cildiroglu

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

We demonstrate theoretically and experimentally a new electromagnetic lensing concept using the magnetic vector potential - in a region free of classical electromagnetic fields - via the Aharonov-Bohm effect. This toroid-shaped lens with…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-05-24 Makoto Tokoro Schreiber , Cathal Cassidy , Menour Saidani , Matthias Wolf