The role of internal degrees of freedom in Aharonov-Bohm-type interference phenomena

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Horsley, S A R ^a   Babiker, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

HELIUM; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MECHANICS; SPACECRAFT PROPULSION;

AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY (APS); CENTER OF MASS (COM); COMPOSITE SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC POLARIZATION; INTERNAL DEGREE OF FREEDOM; INTERNAL DEGREES OF FREEDOM; MAGNETIC (CE); MAGNETIC CHARGES; TRANSIENT LOSSES; TWO TYPES; TYPE INTERFERENCE;

ELECTRIC CHARGE;

EID: 47749128925     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.78.012107     Document Type: Article

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22. The procedure may be carried out in an identical way for the AC effect. However, in this case the propagator obtained is not exact due to the fact that the Lagrangian is cubic in the canonical variables.