2025/03/19 by Konrad Schlichtholz, Schlichtholz, Konrad, Marcin Markiewicz +1
Physics and Astronomy · Engineering · #Mechanical and Optical Resonators #Geophysics and Sensor Technology #Advanced MEMS and NEMS Technologies
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2503.15410
Recent work by Vaidman [Phys. Rev. A 86,040101 (2012)] showed that Aharonov-Bohm effect can be explained in terms of local fields, thus effectively restating an old problem of physicality of potentials. In this work, we propose an argument demonstrating the physicality of electromagnetic potential (upon the assumption of locality) based on the causal structure in flux quantization setup. Crucially, we discuss the fundamental difference between the considered setup and the Aharonov-Bohm experiment that allows for avoiding Vaidman's loophole in our scenario.