Aharonov-Bohm effect for light in a moving medium
Abstract
In this paper we propose a way to detect the Aharonov-Bohm effect for light in a moving medium. We use the position-dependent photon wave function to describe the propagation of the photon in order to evaluate the phase shift acquired by the photon while it passes around a rotating cylinder embedded in a viscous fluid. We show that this phase depends on the speed of the fluid as well as the electromagnetic properties of the cylinder.
- Publication:
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Physical Review A
- Pub Date:
- July 2014
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevA.90.012105
- Bibcode:
- 2014PhRvA..90a2105V
- Keywords:
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- 03.65.Pm;
- 03.65.Vf;
- 42.50.Dv;
- Relativistic wave equations;
- Phases: geometric;
- dynamic or topological;
- Nonclassical states of the electromagnetic field including entangled photon states;
- quantum state engineering and measurements