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View SchemaMaxwell Duality, Lorentz Invariance, and Topological Phase
| Authors | Jonathan P. Dowling, Colin P. Williams, J. D. Franson |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/9906016 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9906016 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.2486 |
| Journal | Phys.Rev.Lett. 83 (1999) 2486-2489 |
Abstract
We discuss the Maxwell electromagnetic duality relations between the Aharonov-Bohm, Aharonov-Casher, and He-McKellar-Wilkens topological phases, which allows a unified description of all three phenomena. We also elucidate Lorentz transformations that allow these effects to be understood in an intuitive fashion in the rest frame of the moving quantum particle. Finally, we propose two experimental schemes for measuring the He-McKellar-Wilkens phase.
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