scholarly journals Non-Abelian Aharonov–Bohm effect with the time-dependent gauge fields

2016 ◽  
Vol 755 ◽  
pp. 88-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seyed Ali Hosseini Mansoori ◽  
Behrouz Mirza
Science ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 365 (6457) ◽  
pp. 1021-1025 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi Yang ◽  
Chao Peng ◽  
Di Zhu ◽  
Hrvoje Buljan ◽  
John D. Joannopoulos ◽  
...  

Particles placed inside an Abelian (commutative) gauge field can acquire different phases when traveling along the same path in opposite directions, as is evident from the Aharonov-Bohm effect. Such behaviors can get significantly enriched for a non-Abelian gauge field, where even the ordering of different paths cannot be switched. So far, real-space realizations of gauge fields have been limited to Abelian ones. We report an experimental synthesis of non-Abelian gauge fields in real space and the observation of the non-Abelian Aharonov-Bohm effect with classical waves and classical fluxes. On the basis of optical mode degeneracy, we break time-reversal symmetry in different manners, via temporal modulation and the Faraday effect, to synthesize tunable non-Abelian gauge fields. The Sagnac interference of two final states, obtained by reversely ordered path integrals, demonstrates the noncommutativity of the gauge fields. Our work introduces real-space building blocks for non-Abelian gauge fields, relevant for classical and quantum exotic topological phenomena.


Author(s):  
Yi Yang ◽  
Chao Peng ◽  
Di Zhu ◽  
Hrvoje Buljan ◽  
John D. Joannopoulos ◽  
...  

2013 ◽  
Vol 723 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 241-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas Singleton ◽  
Elias C. Vagenas

1992 ◽  
Vol 45 (7) ◽  
pp. 4319-4325 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Lee ◽  
E. Yin ◽  
T. K. Gustafson ◽  
R. Chiao

2011 ◽  
Vol 20 (05) ◽  
pp. 951-961 ◽  
Author(s):  
RICARDO WEDER

We consider the problem of obtaining high-velocity estimates for finite energy solutions (wave packets) to Schrödinger equations for N-body systems. We discuss a time-dependent method that allows us to obtain precise estimates with error bounds that decay as a power of the velocity. We apply this method to the electric Aharonov–Bohm effect. We give the first rigorous proof that quantum mechanics predicts the existence of this effect. Our result follows from an estimate in norm, uniform in time, that proves that the Aharonov–Bohm Ansatz is a good approximation to the exact solution to the Schrödinger equation for high velocity.


2017 ◽  
Vol 774 ◽  
pp. 87-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jian Jing ◽  
Yu-Fei Zhang ◽  
Kang Wang ◽  
Zheng-Wen Long ◽  
Shi-Hai Dong

2000 ◽  
Vol 26 (5) ◽  
pp. 392-393 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. N. Ageev ◽  
S. Yu. Davydov ◽  
A. G. Chirkov

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