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An apparent h/fe Aharonov-Bohm flux period, where f is an integer, has been reported in coherent quantum Hall devices. Such sub-period is not expected for non-interacting electrons and thus is thought to result from interelectron Coulomb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-19 Ping V. Lin , F. E. Camino , V. J. Goldman

The point-particle-like Hamiltonian of a biaxial spin particle with external magnetic field along the hard axis is obtained in terms of the potential field description of spin systems with exact spin-coordinate correspondence. The Zeeman…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-15 J. -Q. Liang , H. J. W. Müller-Kirsten , D. K. Park , F. -C. Pu

In both the equations for matter and light wave propagation, the momentum of the electromagnetic fields Pe reflects the relevant em interaction. As a review of some applications of wave propagation properties, an optical experiment which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Gianfranco Spavieri , George T. Gillies

Recent experiments undertaken by Caprez, Barwick, and Batelaan should clarify the connections between classical and quantum theories in connection with the Aharonov-Bohm phase shift. It is pointed out that resistive aspects for the solenoid…

Classical Physics · Physics 2010-05-17 Timothy H. Boyer

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

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

Aharonov-Bohm Physics at the two-particle level is investigated for distinguishable interacting charged particles through the exact solution of a toy model with confined states. The effect of the inaccessible magnetic flux is distributed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-05 Kyriakos Kyriakou , Konstantinos Moulopoulos , Areg Ghazaryan , Anahit Djotyan

In this paper, we present a novel semi-classical theory of the electrostatic and magnetostatic fields and explain the nonlocality problem in the context of the Aharonov-Bohm effect [1]. Specifically, we show that the electrostatic and the…

General Physics · Physics 2021-08-18 Kolahal Bhattacharya

Mesoscopic systems have provided an opportunity to study quantum effects beyond the atomic realm. In these systems quantum coherence prevails over the entire sample. We discuss several novel effects related to persistent currents in open…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Singha Deo , A. M. Jayannavar

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

We study the Aharonov-Bohm effect in a coupled 2$\times$2 quantum dot array with two-terminals. A striking conductance dip arising from the Fano interference is found as the energy levels of the intermediate dots are mismatched, which is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Z. Y. Zeng , F. Claro , Alejandro Pérez

The Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect highlights the fundamental role of electromagnetic potentials in quantum mechanics, manifesting as a phase shift for a charged particle in field-free regions. While well-established for static magnetic fluxes,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Shan Gao

Measurements of the Little-Parks oscillations at measuring current much lower than the persistent current give unambiguous evidence of the dc current flowing against the force of the dc electric field because of the Aharonov-Bohm effect.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-28 V. L. Gurtovoi , A. V. Nikulov , V. A. Tulin

The quantum dynamics of quasi-one-dimensional ring with varying electron filling factor is investigated in presence of external electric field. The system is modeled within Hubbard Hamiltonian with attractive Coulomb correlation, which…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-04-21 Bradraj Pandey , Sudipta Dutta , Swapan K. Pati

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

It has recently been suggested that an Aharonov-Bohm phase should be capable of detection using beams of neutral polarizable particles. A more careful analysis of the proposed experiment suffices to show, however, that it cannot be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 C. R. Hagen

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

By using perturbation theory, we show that a hydrogen atom with magnetic moment due to the orbital angular momentum of the electron has "hidden momentum" in the presence of an external electric field. This means that the atomic electronic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-18 J. S. Oliveira Filho , Pablo L. Saldanha

Electromagnetic duality between the Aharonov-Bohm and the Aharonov-Casher quantum mechanical phases predicts the existence of a new collective state of matter which can be regarded as a spin dual to the fractional quantum Hall effect. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-05 Jean J. Heremans , Djordje Minic

Ring geometries have fascinated experimental and theoretical physicists over many years. Open rings connected to leads allow the observation of the Aharonov-Bohm effect, a paradigm of quantum mechanical phase coherence. The phase coherence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Fuhrer , S. Luescher , T. Ihn , T. Heinzel , K. Ensslin , W. Wegscheider , M. Bichler