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The point-particle-like Hamiltonian of a biaxial spin particle with external magnetic field along the hard axis is obtained in terms of the potential field description of spin systems with exact spin-coordinate correspondence. The Zeeman…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-15 J. -Q. Liang , H. J. W. Müller-Kirsten , D. K. Park , F. -C. Pu

One of the key features of the Majorana bound states emerging in topological superconducting (SC) wires is increasing oscillations of their energy under the growth of magnetic field or chemical potential due to concomitant enhancement of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-25 S. V. Aksenov

We present an application of the affine covariant integral quantization (ACIQ) (Adv. Oper. Theory, 5, 2020; Adv. Oper. Theory, 7, 2022) to quantum mechanics on the punctured plane. The associated four-dimensional phase space is identified…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-01 Jean-Pierre Gazeau , Tomoi Koide , Romain Murenzi , Aidan Zlotak

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

It is shown that the phase of the hidden momentum in Aharonov-Bohm (AB) solenoid effect is equal in magnitude to the phase of the electron but with opposite sign. The phase of the hidden momentum is equal to that obtained by the energy of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-01-04 Y. Ben-Aryeh

We give a direct proof of the magnetic Aharonov-Bohm effects without using the scattering theory and the theory of inverse boundary value problems. This proof can serve as a framework for a physical experiment to confirm the magnetic AB…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-09-20 Gregory Eskin

In this paper, we present a novel semi-classical theory of the electrostatic and magnetostatic fields and explain the nonlocality problem in the context of the Aharonov-Bohm effect [1]. Specifically, we show that the electrostatic and the…

General Physics · Physics 2021-08-18 Kolahal Bhattacharya

We consider a particle in a coherent superposition of states with different electric charge moving in the vicinity of a magnetic flux. Formally, it should acquire a (gauge-dependent) AB relative phase between the charge states, even for an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Noam Erez

In 1959 Aharonov and Bohm suggested that an electron passing around a long solenoid would pick up a phase shift dependent on the magnetic field of the solenoid, even though the electrons themselves pass through a region of space which has a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-04-11 Heidi Fearn , Khai Nguyen

The Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect has been accepted and has promoted interdisciplinary scientific activities in modern physics. To observe the AB effect in condensed matter physics, the whole system needs to maintain phase coherence, in a tiny…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-09 Masakatsu Tsubota , Katsuhiko Inagaki , Satoshi Tanda

We consider the magnetic flux in a quantum mechanical superposition of two values and find that the Aharonov-Bohm effect interference pattern contains information about the nature of the superposition, allowing information about the state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-12 Kaća Bradonjić , John D. Swain

In the present work, we investigated the quantum behavior of a charged particle that is under the effect of a uniform magnetic external field. We assumed that space-time has a space-like dislocation with an internal magnetic flux. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-05 B. C. Lütfüoğlu , J. Kříž , P. Sedaghatnia , H. Hassanabadi

Quantum interference in Aharonov-Bohm (AB) ring structure provides additional control of spin at mesoscopic scale. We propose a scheme for spin filter by studying the coherent transport through the AB structure with lateral magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. W. Wu , J. Zhou , Q. W. Shi

It is frequently stated that the electromagnetic vector potential acquires a fundamental role in quantum physics, whereas classically it only represents a convenient, but by no means necessary, way of representing the electromagnetic field.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-02 Vlatko Vedral

We show theoretically that strong electron coupling to circularly polarized photons in non-singly-connected nanostructures results in the appearance of an artificial gauge field that changes the electron phase. The effect arises from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-05 H. Sigurdsson , O. V. Kibis , I. A. Shelykh

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

It is commonly believed that the Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect is a typical feature of the motion of a charged particle interacting with the electromagnetic vector potential. Here we present a magnetophotoluminescence study of type-II InP/GaAs…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Ribeiro , G. Medeiros-Ribeiro , W. Carvalho , A. O. Govorov

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 effect of an Aharonov-Bohm (AB) pseudo magnetic field on a two dimensional electron gas in graphene is investigated. We consider it modeled as in the usual AB effect but since such pseudo field is supposed to be induced by elastic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-01 Cleverson Filgueiras , Rosinildo Fidelis , Diego Cogollo , Edilberto O. Silva

We investigate a non-Hermitian Aharonov-Bohm (AB) ring system with a quantum dot (QD) embedded in each of its two arms. The energy levels of the QDs are complex in order to take into account the physical gain or loss of the ring system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-14 Qi-Bo Zeng , Shu Chen , Rong Lü