High-velocity estimates for the scattering operator and Aharonov-Bohm effect in three dimensions

DOI10.1007/S00220-008-0579-1zbMATH Open1228.81262arXiv0711.2569OpenAlexW2110399667MaRDI QIDQ657933FDOQ657933

Ricardo Weder, M. Ballesteros

Publication date: 11 January 2012

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We obtain high-velocity estimates with error bounds for the scattering operator of the Schr"odinger equation in three dimensions with electromagnetic potentials in the exterior of bounded obstacles that are handlebodies. A particular case is a finite number of tori. We prove our results with time-dependent methods. We consider high-velocity estimates where the direction of the velocity of the incoming electrons is kept fixed as its absolute value goes to infinity. In the case of one torus our results give a rigorous proof that quantum mechanics predicts the interference patterns observed in the fundamental experiments of Tonomura et al. that gave a conclusive evidence of the existence of the Aharonov-Bohm effect using a toroidal magnet. We give a method for the reconstruction of the flux of the magnetic field over a cross-section of the torus modulo $2pi$. Equivalently, we determine modulo $2pi$ the difference in phase for two electrons that travel to infinity, when one goes inside the hole and the other outside it. For this purpose we only need the high-velocity limit of the scattering operator for one direction of the velocity of the incoming electrons. When there are several tori -or more generally handlebodies- the information that we obtain in the fluxes, and on the difference of phases, depends on the relative position of the tori and on the direction of the velocities when we take the high-velocity limit of the incoming electrons. For some locations of the tori we can determine all the fluxes modulo 2$pi$ by taking the high-velocity limit in only one direction. We also give a method for the unique reconstruction of the electric potential and the magnetic field outside the handlebodies from the high-velocity limit of the scattering operator.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0711.2569

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) (S)-matrix theory, etc. in quantum theory (81U20) Differential geometric methods, including holonomy, Berry and Hannay phases, Aharonov-Bohm effect, etc. in quantum theory (81Q70)

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