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Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 010405 (2005) [3 pages]

Röntgen Quantum Phase Shift: A Semiclassical Local Electrodynamical Effect?

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S. A. R. Horsley and M. Babiker
Department of Physics, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, United Kingdom

Received 17 December 2004; published 29 June 2005

The Röntgen quantum phase shift is exhibited by the interference of point particles endowed with an electric dipole moment due to their motion relative to a source of the magnetic field. Here we show, using arguments involving the classical concepts of force and its impulse, that the Röntgen phase shift arises within a largely classical (semiclassical) theoretical framework. All the subtleties normally associated with the nonlocality of magnetic (Aharonov-Bohm-type) quantum phase phenomena are uncontroversially absent in the classical treatment.

© 2005 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.010405
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.010405
PACS:
03.65.Vf, 03.65.Sq, 03.65.Ta

See Also

Comment: S. C. Tiwari, Comment on “Röntgen Quantum Phase Shift: A Semiclassical Local Electrodynamical Effect?”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 248903 (2005).

Comment: G. Spavieri and M. Rodriguez, Comment on “Röntgen Quantum Phase Shift: A Semiclassical Local Electrodynamical Effect?”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 258901 (2006).

Comment: Tomislav Ivezić, Comment on “Röntgen Quantum Phase Shift: A Semiclassical Local Electrodynamical Effect?”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 158901 (2007).

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