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Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 070404 (2004) [4 pages]

The Effect of a Magnetic Flux Line in Quantum Theory

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Y. Aharonov1,2 and T. Kaufherr1,*
1School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
2Department of Physics, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA

Received 5 May 2001; revised 6 November 2003; published 20 February 2004

The nonlocal exchange of the conserved, gauge invariant quantity ei/ℏ(pk-e/cAk)Lk, Lk=const, k=1,2 between the charged particle and the magnetic flux line (in the k=3 direction) is responsible for the Aharonov-Bohm effect. This exchange occurs at a definite time, before the wave packets are brought together to interfere, and can be verified experimentally.

© 2004 The American Physical Society

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.070404
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.070404
PACS:
03.65.Vf, 03.65.Ta, 03.65.Ud

*Email address: trka@post.tau.ac.il

 
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