Proposed experimental test for the paradoxical forces associated with the Aharonov-Bohm phase shift

DOI10.1007/S10702-006-0907-7zbMATH Open1101.81062arXivphysics/0506180OpenAlexW1969450300MaRDI QIDQ2431799FDOQ2431799

Authors: Timothy H. Boyer 

Publication date: 24 October 2006

Published in: Foundations of Physics Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The classical electromagnetic lag assocated with the Aharonov-Bohm phase shift is obtained by using a Darwin-Lagrangian analysis similar to that given by Coleman and Van Vleck to identify the puzzling forces of the Shockley-James paradox. The classical forces cause changes in particle velocities and so produce a relative lag leading to the same phase shift as predicted by Aharonov and Bohm and observed in experiments. An experiment is proposed to test for this lag aspect implied by the classical analysis but not present in the currently-accepted quantum topological description of the phase shift.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0506180

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Differential geometric methods, including holonomy, Berry and Hannay phases, Aharonov-Bohm effect, etc. in quantum theory (81Q70)

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