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Flat bands play a central role in hosting emergent states of matter in many condensed matter systems, from the nascent insulating states of twisted bilayer graphene to the fractionalized excitations found in frustrated magnets and quantum…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-04-02 Tao Chen , Chenxi Huang , Ivan Velkovsky , Tomoki Ozawa , Hannah Price , Jacob P. Covey , Bryce Gadway

Multi-terminal Aharonov-Bohm (AB) rings are ideal building blocks for quantum networks (QNs) thanks to their ability to map input states into controlled coherent superpositions of output states. We report on experiments performed on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-24 E. Strambini , V. Piazza , G. Biasiol , L. Sorba , F. Beltram

The Aharonov-Bohm effect is a genuine quantum effect typically characterized by a measurable phase shift in the wave function for a charged particle that encircles an electromagnetic field located in a region inaccessible to the mentioned…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-14 Jose A. R. Cembranos , David García-López , Zoe G. del Toro

This study presents the confinement influences of Aharonov-Bohm-flux (AB-flux), electric and magnetic fields directed along $z$-axis and encircled by quantum plasmas, on the hydrogen atom. The all-inclusive effects result to a strongly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-25 Babatunde James Falaye , Guo-Hua Sun , Ramón Silva-Ortigoza , Shi-Hai Dong

We report the results of an experimental study of an analog of the Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect achieved with the hydrodynamic pilot-wave system. A walking droplet is confined to an annular cavity that encircles a shielded vortex, but lies…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-25 Georgi Gary Rozenman , Kyle I. McKee , Arnaud Lazarus , Valeri Frumkin , John W M Bush

We suggest a method for trapping photons in quasi one-dimensional waveguide or coupled-resonator lattices, which is based on an optical analogue of the Aharonov-Bohm cages for charged particles. Light trapping results from a destructive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-01 Stefano Longhi

We present an extreme localization mechanism induced by a magnetic field for tight-binding electrons in two-dimensional structures. This spectacular phenomenon is investigated for a large class of tilings (periodic, quasiperiodic, or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Vidal , R. Mosseri , B. Doucot

Controlled Aharonov-Bohm caging of wave train is reported in a quasi-one dimensional version of Lieb geometry with next nearest neighbor hopping integral within the tight-binding framework. This longer wavelength fluctuation is considered…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-03 Atanu Nandy

The Aharonov-Bohm (AB) cage enables localized confinement with nondiffractive propagation for arbitrary excitation. In this study, we introduce an anti-parity-time (anti-$\mathcal{PT}$) symmetric imaginary coupling in a generalized Creutz…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-24 S. M. Zhang , H. S. Xu , L. Jin

We study a multi-functional device for cold atoms consisting of a three-terminal ring circuit pierced by a synthetic magnetic flux, where the ring can be continuous or discretized. The flux controls the atomic current through the ring via…

We study the consequences of interference effects on the current generated by adiabatic quantum pumping in two distinct one-dimensional (1D) lattice model. The first model contains an Aharonov-Bohm (AB) loop within a tight-binding chain of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-05 Sungjun Kim , Kunal K. Das , Ari Mizel

We study the finite-density phases of a $\mathbb{Z}_2$ lattice gauge theory (LGT) of interconnected loops and dynamical $\mathbb{Z}_2$ charges. The gauge-invariant Wilson terms, accounting for the magnetic flux threading each loop,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-11-04 Enrico C. Domanti , Alejandro Bermudez , Luigi Amico

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

A solvable molecular collision model that predicts Aharonov-Bohm (AB) like scattering in the adiabatic approximation is introduced. For it, we propagate coupled channel wave packets without resorting to a Born-Oppenheimer (BO)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 B. Zygelman

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 Aharonov-Bohm effect has been invoked to probe the phase structure of a gauge theory. Yet in the case of non-Abelian gauge theories, it proves difficult to formulate a general procedure that unambiguously specifies the realization of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Hoi-Kwong Lo

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

In this paper we investigate the scalar Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect in two of its forms, i.e., its electric form and its gravitational form. The standard form of the electric AB effect involves having particles (such as electrons) move in…

Using time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau theory we demonstrate that the Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect, resulting from a Berry phase shift of the (macroscopic) wavefunction, is revealed through the dynamics of topological phase defects present in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-11-15 V. N. Gladilin , J. Tempere , J. T. Devreese , V. V. Moshchalkov

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