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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

We investigate the conductance of an Aharonov-Bohm (AB) interferometer coupled to a quantum dot and two Majorana bound states on the edge of the topological superconductor with finite length. When the tunnel couplings between the Majorana…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-27 Akiko Ueda , Takehito Yokoyama

We study the Aharonov-Bohm effect in an openended tube made of a graphene sheet whose dimensions are much larger than the interatomic distance in graphene. An external magnetic field vanishes on and in the vicinity of the graphene sheet and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-09-28 Mikhail I. Katsnelson , Vladimir Nazaikinskii

We propose a mesoscopic circuit in the quantum Hall effect regime comprising two uncorrelated single-particle sources and two distant Mach-Zehnder interferometers with magnetic fluxes, which allows in a controllable way to produce orbitally…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Janine Splettstoesser , Michael Moskalets , Markus Büttiker

Quantum mechanics in noncommutative space modifies the standard result of the Aharonov-Bohm effect for electrons and other recent quantum effects. Here we obtain the phase in noncommutative space for the Spavieri effect, a generalization of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Miguel E. Rodriguez

We have studied particle motion in generalized forms of noncommutative phase space, that simulate monopole and other forms of Berry curvature, that can be identified as effective internal magnetic fields, in coordinate and momentum space.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 B. Basu , Subir Ghosh , S. Dhar

Quantum-mechanical theory for scattering of nonrelativistic charged particles with spin by a penetrable magnetic vortex is elaborated. The scattering differential cross section is shown to consist of two terms, one describing diffraction on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 Yurii A. Sitenko

The phase shift due to the Sagnac Effect, for relativistic matter and electromagnetic beams, counter-propagating in a rotating interferometer, is deduced using two different approaches. From one hand, we show that the relativistic law of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Guido Rizzi , Matteo Luca Ruggiero

In this article we demonstrate a sense in which the one-particle quantum mechanics (OPQM) and the classical electromagnetic four-potential arise from quantum field theory (QFT). In addition, the classical Maxwell equations are derived from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-10 Benliang Li , Daniel W. Hewak , Qi Jie Wang

After discussing the peculiarities of quantum systems on noncommutative (NC) spaces with non-trivial topology and the operator representation of the $\star$-product on them, we consider the Aharonov-Bohm and Casimir effects for such spaces.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Chaichian , A. Demichev , P. Presnajder , M. M. Sheikh-Jabbari , A. Tureanu

We show that the Aharonov-Bohm effect finds a natural description in the setting of QFT on curved spacetimes in terms of superselection sectors of local observables. The extension of the analysis of superselection sectors from Minkowski…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-12-02 Claudio Dappiaggi , Giuseppe Ruzzi , Ezio Vasselli

The relation of the Aharonov-Casher (AC) effect and the force on a particle having a magnetic moment is explored. The general form of the AC Hamiltonian is derived using the Foldy-Wouthuysen transformation to the Dirac equation. Geometries…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-16 Igor Kuzmenko , Y. B. Band , Yshai Avishai

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 Aharonov-Bohm scattering of charged particles by the magnetic field of an infinitely long and infinitely thin solenoid (magnetic string) in an absorbing medium is studied. We discuss the partial-wave approach to this problem and show…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Juergen Audretsch , Vladimir Skarzhinsky

The gap oscillations caused by a magnetic flux penetrating a carbon nanotube represent one of the most spectacular observation of the Aharonov-Bohm effect at the nano--scale. Our understanding of this effect is, however, based on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-04 Davide Sangalli , Andrea Marini

The analysis of a previous paper, in which it was shown that the energy for the Aharonov-Bohm effect could be traced to the interaction energy between the magnetic field of the electron and the background magnetic field, is extended to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-03 L. O'Raifeartaigh , N. Straumann , A. Wipf

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

Linear response conductance of a two terminal Aharonov-Bohm (AB) interferometer is an even function of magnetic field. This "phase symmetry" is no expected to hold beyond the linear response regime. In simple AB rings the phase of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-02-17 Vadim Puller , Yigal Meir , Martin Sigrist , Klaus Ensslin , Thomas Ihn

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 construct non-Abelian geometric transformations in superconducting nanocircuits, which resemble in properties the Aharonov-Bohm phase for an electron transported around a magnetic flux line. The effective magnetic fields can be strongly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mateusz Cholascinski