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We study the Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect in two-dimensional mesoscopic frame in hole systems. We show that differing from the AB effect in electron systems, due to the presence of both the heavy hole and the light hole, the conductances not…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Zhou , M. W. Wu , M. Q. Weng

We give a complete quantum analysis of the Aharonov-Bohm (AB) magnetic phase shift involving three entities, the electron, the charges constituting the solenoid current, and the vector potential. The usual calculation supposes that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-31 Philip Pearle , Anthony Rizzi

The interaction between a quantum charge and a dynamic source of a magnetic field is considered in the Aharonov-Bohm scenario. It is shown that, in weak interactions with a post-selection of the source, the effective vector potential is,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-23 Ismael L. Paiva , Yakir Aharonov , Jeff Tollaksen , Mordecai Waegell

As a consequence of the Aharonov-Bohm effect, there is a quantum-induced attraction between a charged particle and a rigid, impenetrable hoop made from an arbitrarily thin tube containing a superconductor quantum of magnetic flux. This is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alfred Scharff Goldhaber , Ryan Requist

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

Magnetic Aharonov-Bohm effect (AB effect) was studied in hundreds of papers starting with the seminal paper of Aharonov and Bohm [AB] published in 1959. We give a new proof of the magnetic Aharonov-Bohm effect without using the scattering…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Gregory Eskin

This is a brief review on the theoretical interpretation of the Aharonov-Bohm effect, which also contains our new insight into the problem. A particular emphasis is put on the unique role of electron orbital angular momentum, especially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 Masashi Wakamatsu , Yoshio Kitadono , Liping Zou , Pengming Zhang

The Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect is a purely quantum mechanical effect. The original (classified as Type-I) AB-phase shift exists in experimental conditions where the electromagnetic fields and forces are zero. It is the absence of forces that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Adam Caprez , Brett Barwick , Herman Batelaan

In the original setting of the Aharonov-Bohm, the gauge invariant physical longitudinal mode of the vector potential, which is written by the gauge invariant physical current $(-e)\bar{\psi}{\boldsymbol \gamma} \psi$, gives the desired…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-01 Kazuyasu Shigemoto , Kunihiko Uehara

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

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

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 Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect in non-commutative quantum mechanics (NCQM) is studied. First, by introducing a shift for the magnetic vector potential we give the Schr$\ddot{o}$dinger equations in the presence of a magnetic field on NC space…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-01-07 Kang Li , Sayipjamal Dulat

We study a generalization of Aharonov-Bohm effect, the potential effect. The discussion is focused on field-free effects in simply connected region, which obviously can not have any local field-flux. Among the published discussions about…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-15 Jùn Líu

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 basic AB problem is to determine how an unshielded tube of magnetic flux $\Phi$ affects arbitrarily long-wavelength charged particles impinging on it. For spin-1 at almost all $\Phi$ the particles do not penetrate the tube, so the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-19 M. L. Horner , Alfred S. Goldhaber

We give a direct proof of the magnetic Aharonov-Bohm effects without using the scattering theory and the theory of inverse boundary value problems. This proof can serve as a framework for a physical experiment to confirm the magnetic AB…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-09-20 Gregory Eskin

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

Electromagnetic vector potential has physical significance in quantum mechanics as revealed by the Aharonov-Bohm effect for charged particles. However, till date it is thought that we cannot measure the vector potential directly as this is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-15 Arun Kumar Pati

The experimental realization of a coupled spin pair has been reported by Heiko Webber et.al and its theoretical description has been previously discussed including the condition that local magnetization of the junction is required for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 Juan David Vasquez Jaramillo , Erik Sjoqvist , Jonas Fransson