Locality and Topology in the Molecular Aharonov-Bohm Effect
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Locality and topology in the molecular Aharonov-Bohm effect.
It is shown that the molecular Aharonov-Bohm effect is neither nonlocal nor topological in the sense of the standard magnetic Aharonov-Bohm effect. It is further argued that there is a close relationship between the molecular Aharonov-Bohm effect and the Aharonov-Casher effect for an electrically neutral spin -1 / 2 particle encircling a line of charge.
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عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review Letters
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0031-9007,1079-7114
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.89.210401