Condition for Nonexistence of Aharonov-Bohm Effect
- 21 January 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 44 (3), 111-114
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.44.111
Abstract
It is shown that electromagnetic effects of a vector potential on a charged particle confined to a region (multiply or simply connected) are completely determined by field strengths in , if the potential obeys certain conditions. Such potentials are adequate in experiments purporting to show Aharonov-Bohm effect. Therefore these experiments have not established effects of inaccessible fields.
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