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In the Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect, a superposed charge acquires a detectable phase by enclosing an infinite solenoid, in a region where the solenoid's electric and magnetic fields are zero. Its generation seems therefore explainable only by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-29 C. Marletto , V. Vedral

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

In this Comment it is shown that it cannot be argued that in the magnetic AB effect there is no force acting on the particle, i.e., that the observed phase shift is entirely due to nonzero vector potential. In stationary resistive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-21 Tomislav Ivezic

This paper undertakes a critical reexamination of the electrostatic version of the Aharonov-Bohm ("AB") effect. The conclusions are as follows: 1. Aharonov and Bohm's 1959 exposition is invalid because it does not consider the wavefunction…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-22 Allan Walstad

The magnetic Aharonov-Bohm (A-B) effect occurs when a point charge interacts with a line of magnetic flux, while its dual, the Aharonov-Casher (A-C) effect, occurs when a magnetic moment interacts with a line of charge. For the two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Scot McGregor , Ryan Hotovy , Adam Caprez , Herman Batelaan

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 Aharonov-Bohm effect is a physical phenomenon in which the quantum state of a charged particle acquires a phase shift that is directly proportional to the magnetic flux, $\Phi$, due to a (classical) magnetic field, ${\mathbf B}$, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Manvendra Somvanshi , D. Jaffino Stargen

The Aharonov-Bohm (A-B) effect has been a major focus of the foundations of physics. And yet, much confusion persists. In particular, the effect purportedly leads to a dilemma: on one horn, we have a non-local action of a gauge-invariant…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2025-09-25 Henrique Gomes

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 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

We propose a simple situation in which the magnetic Aharonov-Bohm potential influences the values of the deficiency indices of the initial Schr\"odinger operator, so determining whether the particle interacts with the solenoid or not. Even…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-02-12 Cesar R. de Oliveira , Renan G. Romano

Marletto and Vedral [Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 040401 (2020)] propose that the Aharonov-Bohm (AB) phase is locally mediated by entanglement between a charged particle and the quantized electromagnetic field, asserting gauge independence for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Shan Gao

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

The locality principle fulfillment in the Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect is analyzed from the point of view of a self-sufficient potential formalism based on so-called gradient hypothesis in electrodynamics. The "magnetic" kind of AB effect is…

General Physics · Physics 2013-07-02 Alexander Gritsunov , Natalie Masolova

There recently appear some interesting attempts to explain the AB-effect through the interaction between the charged particle and the solenoid current mediated by the exchange of a virtual photon. A vital assumption of this approach is that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-31 Masashi Wakamatsu

We present an exact, time-dependent solution for a two-dimensional Pauli oscillator deformed by Dunkl operators in the presence of an Aharonov--Bohm (AB) flux. By replacing conventional momenta with Dunkl momenta and allowing arbitrary time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-14 Boubakeur Khantoul , Ahmed Tedjani

The Aharonov-Bohm effect is one of the most surprising wonders of the quantum world. The observed solenoid effect, as well as others, shows that a particle is affected by the potential in a region in which there is no force-field. This is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-02 J. Bernabeu , C. Espinoza

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 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

The time-dependent Dirac equation is solved using the three-dimensional Finite Difference-Time Domain (FDTD) method. The dynamics of the electron wave packet in a vector potential is studied in the arrangements associated with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-03-25 Neven Simicevic