2015/07/02 by Herman Batelaan, Batelaan, Herman, Maria Becker +1
Physics and Astronomy · #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #FOS: Physical sciences #Quantum Physics (quant-ph) #Quantum and electron transport phenomena #Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1507.00657
12 pages, 1 giure, 1 table
arxiv created 2015/07/02 · openalex publication_date 2015/07/02 · arxiv updated 2015/07/03 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The independence of the Aharonov-Bohm phase shift on particle velocity is one of its defining properties. The classical counterpart to this dispersionless behavior is the absence of forces along the direction of motion of the particle. A reevaluation of the experimental demonstration that forces are absent in the AB physical system is given, including previously unpublished data. It is shown that the debate on the presence or absence of forces is not settled, and an experiment searching for dispersionless forces is proposed.