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Aharonov-Bohm (AB) and Aharonov-Casher (AC) effects are treated fully relativistically in 2+1 dimensions. The influences of the relevant geometric and topological phases on an entangled spin-1/2 system are studied. It is shown that for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-27 H. O. Cildiroglu , A. U. Yilmazer

The matrix-valued Aharonov-Casher phase factor $F_{\text{AC}}$ (related to the c-number Aharonov-Casher phase $\lambda_{\text{AC}}$) plays an important role in the physics of mesoscopic systems in which spin-orbit coupling is relevant. Yet,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-15 Yshai Avishai , Keisuke Totsuka , Naoto Nagaosa

In this paper it is presented a manifestly covariant formulation of the Aharonov-Bohm (AB) phase difference for the magnetic AB effect . This covariant AB phase is written in terms of the Faraday 2-form F and using the decomposition of F in…

General Physics · Physics 2015-05-22 Tomislav Ivezic

We study the quantum dynamics of neutral particle that posseses a permanent magnetic and electric dipole moments in the presence of an electromagnetic field. The analysis of this dynamics demonstrates the appearance of a quantum phase that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Claudio Furtado , C. A. de Lima Ribeiro

The magnetic Aharonov-Bohm effect shows that charged particles may be affected by the vector potential in regions without any electric or magnetic fields [1]. The Aharonov-Bohm effect was experimentally confirmed [2-3] and has been found in…

Classical Physics · Physics 2022-01-31 Gaobiao Xiao

The most popular interpretation of the Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect is that the electromagnetic potential locally affects the complex phase of a charged particle's wave function in the magnetic field free region. However, since the vector…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-10 Masashi Wakamatsu

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

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 work bound states for the Aharonov-Casher problem are considered. According to Hagen's work on the exact equivalence between spin-1/2 Aharonov-Bohm and Aharonov-Casher effects, is known that the $\boldsymbol{\nabla}\cdot\mathbf{E}$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-25 E. O. Silva , F. M. Andrade , H. Belich , C. Filgueiras

Whether the time-dependent Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect even exists or not has been the subject of long-standing debate. There are two factors complicating the problem. First, in the closed spacetime line integral of the vector potential that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-12 Masashi Wakamatsu

The original topological Aharonov-Casher (AC) effect is due to the interaction of the anomalous magnetic dipole moment (MDM) with certain configurations of electric field. Naively one would not expect an AC effect for a scalar particle for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 Xiao-Gang He , Bruce H. McKellar

It has been suggested that the magnetic Aharonov-Bohm effect can be interpreted equally well as being due to a phase shift associated with an electron in an interferometer enclosing a magnetic flux, or as a phase shift associated with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 J. D. Franson

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

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

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 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

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 spectral properties of the Dirac Hamiltonian in the the Aharonov-Bohm potential are discussed. By using the Krein-Friedel formula, the density of states (DOS) for different self-adjoint extensions is calculated. As in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Alexander Moroz

It is well-known that Dirac particles gain geometric phase, namely Berry phase, while moving in an electromagnetic field. Researchers have already shown covariant formalism for the Berry connection due to an electromagnetic field. A similar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-12 Achal Kumar , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

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