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Analogue Aharonov-Bohm effect in a Lorentz-violating background

High Energy Physics - Theory 2013-05-30 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

In this paper we consider the acoustic black hole metrics obtained from a relativistic fluid under the influence of constant background that violates the Lorentz symmetry to study the analogue of the Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect. We show that the scattering of planar waves by a draining bathtub vortex leads to a modified AB effect and due to the Lorentz symmetry breaking, the phase shift persists even in the limit where the parameters associated with the circulation and draining vanish. In this limit, the Lorentz-violating background forms a conical defect, which is also responsible for the appearance of the analogue AB effect.

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@article{arxiv.1208.2615,
  title  = {Analogue Aharonov-Bohm effect in a Lorentz-violating background},
  author = {M. A. Anacleto and F. A. Brito and E. Passos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1208.2615},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

10 pages, Latex, no figures; version published in Physical Review D. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1210.7739, arXiv:1101.2891

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