Original scientific paper

Validity range of the magnetic Aharonov - Bohm effect

Eliahu Comay ; School of Physics and Astronomy, Raymond and Beverly Sacler, Faculty of Exact Science, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel

Abstract

The magnetic Aharonov-Bohm effect is analyzed. Using basic properties of quantum mechanics, it is shown that the effect exists in a case where the energy spectrum of the source of the magnetic flux does not belong to a continuum. On the other hand, the effect disappears in an example of a source whose energy spectrum is continuous. It is shown that in all cases the system demonstrates the ordinary relations between classical physics and quantum mechanics.

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Hrčak ID:

331435

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/331435

Publication date:

5.4.1988.

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