A purely geometrical Aharonov-Bohm effect

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2412.13919v3
• Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2024 15:48:19 GMT
• Title: A purely geometrical Aharonov-Bohm effect
• Authors: Jean-Pierre Gazeau, Tomoi Koide, Romain Murenzi, Aidan Zlotak,
• Abstract summary: We apply covariant affine integral quantization to study motion in the 2D punctured plane.<n>Near the punctured point, we observe that the topology influencing quantum fluctuations gives rise to an affine vector potential.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: In this paper, we apply covariant affine integral quantization to study motion in the 2D punctured plane. The associated four-dimensional phase space is identified with the similitude group SIM(2), representing transformations of the plane composed of translations, rotations, and dilations. Near the punctured point, we observe that the topology influencing quantum fluctuations gives rise to an affine vector potential, which can be interpreted as the Aharonov-Bohm (AB) gauge potential generated by an infinite coil. This finding suggests that the AB effect originates from the topology enforced by the impenetrable coil, rather than from a classical gauge potential. Our results offer a novel perspective on the AB effect, emphasizing the fundamental role of topology in quantum mechanics.

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