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Beginning with the basic notions of quantum theory, impossibility of `trajectory' description for particles that ensues from uncertainty principle is discussed. Why the observed tracks in bubble/cloud chambers are not really the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-26 Patrick Das Gupta

Although there is no force on the electron in Aharonov-Bohm solenoid effect, the electron exerts a force on the solenoid related to the inequality of action and reaction forces of two subsystems in three-system configuration. The AB phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-30 Y. Ben-Aryeh

We investigate the non-Abelian Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect for time-dependent gauge fields. We prove that the non-Abelian AB phase shift related to time-dependent gauge fields, in which the electric and magnetic fields are written in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-16 Seyed Ali Hosseini Mansoori , Behrouz Mirza

This study looks at the confinement effects of Aharonov-Bohm (AB) flux and magnetic fields, as well as topological defects in a quantum plasma, on the hydrogen atom. The joint effects show that the system is extremely attractive.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-03-17 C. O. Edet , A. N. Ikot

We present a microscopic picture of quantum transport in the Aharonov-Bohm (AB) interferometer taking into account electron interaction within the Hartree and the spin density functional theory approximations. We discuss the structure of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Ihnatsenka , I. V. Zozoulenko

The adiabatic Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect is a manifestation of the Berry phase acquired when some slow variables take a planar spin around a loop. While the effect has been observed in molecular spectroscopy, direct measurement of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-16 Erik Sjöqvist , Martin Almquist , Ken Mattsson , Zeynep Nilhan Gürkan , Björn Hessmo

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

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

A detailed description of the tunneling processes within Aharonov-Bohm (AB) rings containing two-dimensional quantum dots is presented. We show that the electronic propagation through the interferometer is controlled by the spectral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 V. Moldoveanu , M. Ţolea , A. Aldea , B. Tanatar

By using the wave function ansatz method, we study the energy eigenvalues and wave function for any arbitrary $m$-state in two-dimensional Schr\"{o}dinger wave equation with various power interaction potentials in constant magnetic and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-23 Sameer M. Ikhdair , Babatunde J. Falaye , Majid Hamzavi

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

Aharonov-Bohm (AB) interferences in the quantum Hall regime can be achieved, provided that electrons are able to transmit between two edge channels in nanostructures. Pioneering approaches include quantum point contacts in 2DEG systems,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-21 Viet Hung Nguyen , Jean-Christophe Charlier

The electric Aharonov-Bohm effect is a special case of the general Ab effect. However, when inserting a gravitational potential in the place of the time dependent potential, a different understanding of the phase shift could be gained. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-12-30 Doron M. Ludwin

Inverted-band $pn$ junctions in two-dimensional materials offer a promising platform for electron optics in condensed matter, as they allow to manipulate and guide electron beams without the need for spatial confinement. In this work, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-30 Yuhao Zhao , Oded Zilberberg , Antonio Štrkalj

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

Ultra-cold atoms in light-shaped potentials open up new ways to explore mesoscopic physics: Arbitrary trapping potentials can be engineered with only a change of the laser field. Here, we propose using ultracold atoms in light-shaped…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-10-09 Tobias Haug , Hermanni Heimonen , Rainer Dumke , Leong-Chuan Kwek , Luigi Amico

We theoretically investigate electron transport through an Aharonov-Bohm interferometer containing laterally coupled double quantum dots. We introduce the indirect coupling parameter $\alpha$, which characterizes the strength of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Toshihiro Kubo , Yasuhiro Tokura , Tsuyoshi Hatano , Seigo Tarucha

The Aharonov-Casher (AC) effect for quantum motion of a neutral magnetized particle in the electric field is believed to be a topological effect closely related to the known Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect. We study how it depends on the spin of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Ya. I. Azimov , R. M. Ryndin

The Aharonov-Bohm effect is the prime example of a zero-field-strength configuration where a non-trivial vector potential acquires physical significance, a typical quantum mechanical effect. We consider an extension of the traditional A-B…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-02-16 Fabio Franchini , Alfred Scharff Goldhaber

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