A general method for deriving vector potentials produced by knotted solenoids

DOI10.1142/S0217732314501892MaRDI QIDQ2934547zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors V. V. Sreedhar

Publication date 15 December 2014

Published in Modern Physics Letters A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.01095

zbMATH Keywords

Aharonov-Bohm effectknotted solenoids

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Electro- and magnetostatics (78A30) Motion of charged particles (78A35)

Abstract: A general method for deriving exact expressions for vector potentials produced by arbitrarily knotted solenoids is presented. It consists of using simple physics ideas from magnetostatics to evaluate the magnetic field in a surrogate problem. The latter is obtained by modelling the knot with wire segments carrying steady currents on a cubical lattice. The expressions for a 31 (trefoil) and a 41 (figure-eight) knot are explicitly worked out. The results are of some importance in the study of the Aharonov-Bohm effect generalised to a situation in which charged particles moving through force-free regions are scattered by fluxes confined to the interior of knotted impenetrable tubes.

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