AC Stark effect or time-dependent Aharonov-Bohm effect for particle on a ring
Quantum Physics
2025-12-19 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
We study the effect of a time-varying solenoidal vector potential for a quantum particle confined to a ring. The setup appears to be a time-varying version of the Aharonov-Bohm effect, but since the particle moves in the presence of fields, it is not strictly an Aharonov-Bohm effect. The results are similar to the ac Stark effect, but with a time-varying electric field coming from the vector potential, rather than the scalar potential. We compare and contrast the present effect with the standard ac Stark effect. The signature of this setup is the generation of quasi-energy sidebands which are observable via spectroscopy.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2512.15935,
title = {AC Stark effect or time-dependent Aharonov-Bohm effect for particle on a ring},
author = {Patrick Hinrichs and Douglas Singleton and Nader Inan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.15935},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
18 pages, 5 figures, revtex4, accepted for publication in Physics Letters A