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An induced fractional zero-point angular momentum of charged particles by the Bohm-Aharonov (B-A) vector potential is realized via a modified combined trap. It explores a "spectator" mechanism in this type of quantum effects: In the limit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jian-Zu Zhang

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

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…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Boris Ivetić

We demonstrate that the experimentally observed conductance oscillations through a gate-controlled quantum dot under quantized Hall conditions originate from a true Aharonov-Bohm phase that is acquired by the electrons as they co-propagate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-10 Afif Siddiki , Kaan Guven

We propose a mesoscopic circuit in the quantum Hall effect regime comprising two uncorrelated single-particle sources and two distant Mach-Zehnder interferometers with magnetic fluxes, which allows in a controllable way to produce orbitally…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Janine Splettstoesser , Michael Moskalets , Markus Büttiker

The induced fractional zero-point canonical angular momentum on charged particles by the Aharonov - Bohm (AB) vector potential is realized via modified combined traps. It explores new features for this type of quantum effects: In a limit of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-10 Jian-Zu Zhang

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 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 present a unified treatment of the Aharonov--Bohm (AB) effect for two-dimensional multiband electronic systems possessing isotropic band structures. We propose an integral representation of the AB scattering state of an electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-17 Róbert Németh , József Cserti

Another manifestation of the Aharonov-Bohm effect is introduced to chemistry, in fact to nuclear dynamics and high-resolution molecular spectroscopy. As demonstrated, the overall rotation of a symmetric-top molecule influences the dynamics…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-11-24 Jonathan I. Rawlinson , Csaba Fábri , Attila G. Császár

The Aharonov-Bohm phase shift in a particle interference pattern when electrons pass a long solenoid is identical in form with the optical interference pattern shift when a piece of retarding glass is introduced into one path of a two-beam…

Classical Physics · Physics 2023-08-16 Timothy H. Boyer

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

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

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

In this article we discuss the analogy between superfluids and a spinning thick cosmic string. We use the geometrical approach to obtain the geometrical phases for a phonon in the presence of a vortex. We use loop variables for a geometric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Claudio Furtado , A. M. de M. Carvalho , L. C. Garcia de Andrade , F. Moraes

We consider different schemes for the electrodynamic Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect introduced in Ref. [Phys. Rev. A $\mathbf{108}$, 062218 (2023)], exploring the phenomenon to enhance the understanding of its topological nature in spacetime. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Pablo L. Saldanha , Herman Batelaan

On the basis of the Bogolubov-de Gennes theory we develop an analytical description of low-energy extended quasiparticle states around an isolated flux line in a superconductor with gap nodes. The wavefunctions of these excitations and the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 A. S. Mel'nikov

We investigate the gravitational Aharonov-Bohm effect, by placing a quantum system in free-fall around a gravitating body {\it e.g.} a satellite orbiting the Earth. Since the system is in free-fall, by the equivalence principle, the quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-27 RY Chiao , NA Inan , M Scheibner , J Sharping , DA Singleton , ME Tobar

Spinor fields are written in polar form so as to compute their tensorial connection, an object that contains the same information of the connection but which is also proven to be a real tensor. From this, one can still compute the Riemann…

General Physics · Physics 2020-04-28 Luca Fabbri , Flora Moulin , Aurélien Barrau

A field-interaction scheme is introduced for describing the Aharonov-Bohm effect, fully consistent with the principle of relativity. Our theory is based on the fact that local field interactions are present even when a particle moves only…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-21 Kicheon Kang