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Volume 115, Number 1, July 2016
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Article Number | 10011 | |
Number of page(s) | 7 | |
Section | General | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/115/10011 | |
Published online | 10 August 2016 |
Experimental test for approximately dispersionless forces in the Aharonov-Bohm effect
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln - 208 Jorgensen Hall, Lincoln, NE 68588-0299, USA
Received: 11 July 2016
Accepted: 29 July 2016
A new class of forces, approximately dispersionless forces, were recently predicted as part of a semiclassical description of the Aharonov-Bohm effect. Electron time-of-flight measurements have been performed that test for such forces. Magnetized iron cores used in the previous time-of-flight experiment may affect potential back-action forces and have, therefore, been eliminated. We report that no forces were detected. This finding supports the local and nonlocal, quantum descriptions of the AB effect and rules out local, semiclassical descriptions.
PACS: 03.65.Ta – Foundations of quantum mechanics; measurement theory / 03.75.-b – Matter waves / 03.65.Vf – Phases: geometric; dynamic or topological
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