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The Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect is an important discovery of quantum theory. It serves as a surprising quantum phenomenon in which an electrically charged particle can be affected by an electromagnetic potential, despite being confined to a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-10 Jing-Ling Chen , Xing-Yan Fan , Xiang-Ru Xie

We present an angular--momentum--resolved energetic formulation of the Aharonov--Bohm (AB) response for a confined Dirac electron based on two gauge--invariant interaction functionals: a magnetization--field functional and a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Ju Gao , Fang Shen

This work presents theoretical demonstration of Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect in monolayer phosphorene nanorings (PNR). Atomistic quantum transport simulations of PNR are employed to investigate the impact of multiple modulation sources on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-16 Rui Zhang , Zhenhua Wu , Xiaojing Li , Kai Chang

We explore the effect of the external magnetic and Aharonov-Bohm (AB) flux fields on the energy levels of Dirac particle subjects to mixed scalar and vector anharmonic oscillator field in the two-dimensional (2D) space. We calculate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-03 Majid Hamzavia , Sameer M. Ikhdair , Babatunde J. Falaye

In the Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect, interference fringes are observed for a charged particle in the absence of the local overlap with the external electromagnetic field. This notion of the apparent nonlocality of the interaction or the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-11 Kicheon Kang

We study the Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect in two-dimensional mesoscopic frame in hole systems. We show that differing from the AB effect in electron systems, due to the presence of both the heavy hole and the light hole, the conductances not…

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

Exploring the time-dependent characteristics of AB-type effects holds significant importance in contemporary physics and its practical applications. Here, we delve into the investigation of time-dependent topological effects emerging in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-18 H. O. Cildiroglu

Using extensive tight-binding calculations, we investigate (including the spin) the Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect in monolayer and bilayer trigonal and hexagonal graphene rings with zigzag boundary conditions. Unlike the previous literature, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-19 Igor Romanovsky , Constantine Yannouleas , Uzi Landman

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

We consider the Dirac equation in the magnetic-solenoid field (the field of a solenoid and a collinear uniform magnetic field). For the case of Aharonov-Bohm solenoid, we construct self-adjoint extensions of the Dirac Hamiltonian using von…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 S. P. Gavrilov , D. M. Gitman , A. A. Smirnov

We present a unified treatment of the Aharonov--Bohm (AB) effect for two-dimensional multiband electronic systems possessing isotropic band structures. We propose an integral representation of the AB scattering state of an electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-17 Róbert Németh , József Cserti

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

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

In this article, we study topological and noninertial effects on the motion of the two-dimensional Dirac oscillator in the presence of a uniform magnetic field and the Aharonov-Bohm potential. We obtain the Dirac equation that describes the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-11-24 Márcio M. Cunha , Henrique S. Dias , Edilberto O. Silva

In this paper it is presented a manifestly covariant formulation of the Aharonov-Bohm (AB) phase difference for the magnetic AB effect . This covariant AB phase is written in terms of the Faraday 2-form F and using the decomposition of F in…

General Physics · Physics 2015-05-22 Tomislav Ivezic

We develop a unified treatment of the non-Abelian Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect in isotropic multiband systems, namely, the scattering of particles on a gauge field corresponding to a noncommutative Lie group. We present a complex contour…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-04 Róbert Németh , József Cserti

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

In the present article we analyze the problem of a relativistic Dirac electron in the presence of a combination of a Coulomb field, a $1/r$ scalar potential as well as a Dirac magnetic monopole and an Aharonov-Bohm potential. Using the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-15 Víctor M. Villalba

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

Self-intersecting energy band structures in momentum space can be induced by nonlinearity at the mean-field level, with the so-called nonlinear Dirac cones as one intriguing consequence. Using the Qi-Wu-Zhang model plus power law…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-29 Xi Liu , Qing-hai Wang , Jiangbin Gong