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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

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 noncommutative space provides a framework to understand phenomena in Planck scale physics. However, there is no any direct experimental evidence to demonstrate the existence of noncommutative space. We propose an experimental scheme…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-06 Shi-Dong Liang

We consider a charged particle moving in a two dimensional plane in the presence of a background magnetic field perpendicular to the plane, i.e. the Landau system in a phase-space where the coordinates and momenta both follow canonical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-01-04 Sunandan Gangopadhyay , Anirban Saha , Aslam Halder

We show that the linking of a semiclassical path of a charged particle with a knotted magnetic solenoid results in the Aharonov-Bohm effect. The phase shift in the wave function is proportional to the flux intersecting a certain connected…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-02-16 Roman V. Buniy , Thomas W. Kephart

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

Noncommutative phase space plays an essential role in particle physics and quantum gravity at the Planck scale. However, direct experimental evidence or observation to demonstrate the existence of noncommutative phase space is still…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-03 Shi-Dong Liang , Haoqi Li , Guang-Yao Huang

We add a confining potential to the Aharonov-Bohm model resulting in no contact of the particle with the solenoid (border); this is characterized by a unique self-adjoint extension of the initial Hamiltonian operator. It is shown that the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-11-20 Cesar R. de Oliveira , Renan G. Romano

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 considered by most authors as a quantum effect, but a generally accepted explanation does not seem to be available. The phenomenon is studied here under the assumption that hypothetical electric dipole…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-21 K. Wilhelm , B. N. Dwivedi

A quantum theory is developed for the scattering of a nonrelativistic particle in the field of a cosmic string regarded as a combination of a magnetic and gravitational strings. Allowance is made for the effects due to the finite transverse…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Yurii Sitenko , Alexei Mishchenko

We propose an electrodynamic Aharonov-Bohm (AB) scheme where a nonzero AB phase difference appears even if the interferometer paths do not enclose a magnetic flux and are subjected to negligible scalar potential differences during the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-30 Pablo L. Saldanha

We consider a nonrelativistic quantum charged particle moving on a plane under the influence of a uniform magnetic field and driven by a periodically time-dependent Aharonov-Bohm flux. We observe an acceleration effect in the case when the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-07-15 T. Kalvoda , P. Stovicek

The path-integral technique in quantum mechanics provides an intuitive framework for comprehending particle propagation and scattering. Calculating the propagator for the Aharonov-Bohm potential fits into the range of potentials in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-04-30 Fabrizio Colombo , Elodie Pozzi , Irene Sabadini , Brett D. Wick

The dynamics of a spin--1/2 neutral particle possessing electric and magnetic dipole moments interacting with external electric and magnetic fields in noncommutative coordinates is obtained. Noncommutativity of space is interposed in terms…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-08-03 Omer F. Dayi

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

In this work a new method is developed to investigate the Aharonov-Casher effect in a noncommutative space. It is shown that the holonomy receives non-trivial kinematical corrections.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 B. Mirza , M. Zarei

The Aharonov-Casher (AC) effect in non-commutative(NC) quantum mechanics is studied. Instead of using the star product method, we use a generalization of Bopp's shift method. After solving the Dirac equations both on noncommutative space…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Kang Li , Jianhua Wang

The nonloclal exchange of the conserved, gauge invariant quantity $e^{\frac{i}{\hbar} (p_{k}-\frac{e}{c}A_{k})L^{k}}, L^{k}=const., k=1,2$ between the charged particle and the magnetic flux line (in the $k=3$ direction), is responsible for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. Aharonov , T. Kaufherr

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