Aharonov-Bohm effect revisited
Abstract
Aharonov-Bohm effect is a quantum mechanical phenomenon that attracted the attention of many physicists and mathematicians since the publication of the seminal paper of Aharonov and Bohm [1] in 1959.
We consider different types of Aharonov-Bohm effects such as the magnetic AB effect, electric AB effect, combined electromagnetic AB effect, AB effect for the Schrödinger equations with Yang-Mills potentials, and the gravitational analog of AB effect. We shall describe different approaches to prove the AB effect based on the inverse scattering problems, the inverse boundary value problems in the presence of obstacles, spectral asymptotics, and the direct proofs of the AB effect.- Publication:
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Reviews in Mathematical Physics
- Pub Date:
- April 2015
- DOI:
- 10.1142/S0129055X15300010
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1504.04784
- Bibcode:
- 2015RvMaP..2730001E
- Keywords:
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- Aharonov–Bohm effect;
- Schrödinger equation;
- gauge equivalence;
- Mathematical Physics;
- Mathematics - Analysis of PDEs;
- 2010: 35R30;
- 35P25;
- 81P15
- E-Print:
- This article is an expended version of arXiv:1007.3979. Note the change of the title