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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

Magnetic Aharonov-Bohm effect (AB effect) was studied in hundreds of papers starting with the seminal paper of Aharonov and Bohm [AB] published in 1959. We give a new proof of the magnetic Aharonov-Bohm effect without using the scattering…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Gregory Eskin

The Aharonov-Bohm (AB) interference patterns in ring-shaped conductors are usually dominated by random features. The amplitude of the oscillations is random from sample to sample and from point to point on the magnetic field axis owing to…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 J. Liu , W. X. Gao , K. Ismail , K. Y. Lee , J. M. Hong , S. Washburn

We consider different schemes for the electrodynamic Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect introduced in Ref. [Phys. Rev. A $\mathbf{108}$, 062218 (2023)], exploring the phenomenon to enhance the understanding of its topological nature in spacetime. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Pablo L. Saldanha , Herman Batelaan

It is proved that the phase shift of a polarized neutron interacting with a spatially uniform time-dependent magnetic field, demonstrates the same physical principles as the magnetic Aharonov-Bohm effect. The crucial role of inert objects…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 E. Comay

In the original setting of the Aharonov-Bohm, the gauge invariant physical longitudinal mode of the vector potential, which is written by the gauge invariant physical current $(-e)\bar{\psi}{\boldsymbol \gamma} \psi$, gives the desired…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-01 Kazuyasu Shigemoto , Kunihiko Uehara

The Aharonov-Bohm effect is measured in a four-terminal open ring geometry based on a Ga[Al]As heterostructure. Two quantum dots are embedded in the structure, one in each of the two interfering paths. The number of electrons in the two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Sigrist , A. Fuhrer , T. Ihn , K. Ensslin , S. E. Ulloa , W. Wegscheider , M. Bichler

The Aharonov-Bohm effect is traditionally attributed to the effect of the electromagnetic 4-potential $A$, even in regions where both the electric field $\mathbf{E}$ and the magnetic field $\mathbf{B}$ are zero. The AB effect reveals that…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Y. Friedman , V. Ostapenko

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 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

A new classical electromagnetic analysis is presented suggesting that the Aharonov-Bohm phase shift is overwhelmingly likely to arise from a classical lag effect based upon classical electromagnetic forces. The analysis makes use of several…

Classical Physics · Physics 2014-08-27 Timothy H. Boyer

The existence of the Aharonov-Bohm phase shows that the magnetic field may produce nonlocal effects in quantum mechanics. It is generally believed that such a nonlocal behavior of the magnetic field is not possible in classical physics and…

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-11-22 Ricardo Heras

A field-interaction scheme is introduced for describing the Aharonov-Bohm effect, fully consistent with the principle of relativity. Our theory is based on the fact that local field interactions are present even when a particle moves only…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-21 Kicheon Kang

This paper investigates a geometric framework for the gravitational Aharonov-Bohm effect in four-dimensional spacetime, demonstrating how spacetime curvature induces nonlocal quantum phase shifts within field-free regions. By constructing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-05 Yanhui Li , Yakefu Reyimuaji

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

When the electromagnetic potentials are expressed in the Coulomb gauge in terms of the electric and magnetic fields rather than the sources responsible for these fields they have a simple form that is non-local i.e. the potentials depend on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-28 A. M. Stewart

The phase shifts of the Aharonov-Bohm effect are generally determined by means of the partial wave decomposition of the underlying Schrodinger equation. It is shown here that they readily emerge from an o(2,1) calculation of the energy…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 C. R. Hagen

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

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

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