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Critical re-examination of Tonomura experiments; Kriticheskoe rassmotrenie ehksperimentov Tonomury

Abstract

The ingenious Tonomura et al. experiments testing the existence of the Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect is analyzed. It turns out that they can be described with both singlevalued and multivalued wave functions. Thus, the Tonomura experiments neither confirm nor reject the AB effect existence. A slight modification of these experiments is proposed which can resolve the above ambiguity and elucidate the possible used of multivalued wave functions in multiconnected space regions. 10 refs.; 2 figs.
Authors:
Publication Date:
Dec 31, 1990
Product Type:
Technical Report
Report Number:
JINR-R-4-90-411
Reference Number:
SCA: 661100; PA: AIX-22:081558; SN: 91000608748
Resource Relation:
Other Information: DN: Submitted to Phys. Rev. Letters.; PBD: 1990
Subject:
71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; ELECTRONS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; SCATTERING; SOLENOIDS; TOROIDAL CONFIGURATION; WAVE FUNCTIONS; 661100; CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
OSTI ID:
10104751
Research Organizations:
Joint Inst. for Nuclear Research, Dubna (Russian Federation). Lab. of Theoretical Physics
Country of Origin:
USSR
Language:
Russian
Other Identifying Numbers:
Other: ON: DE92609059; TRN: SU9107817081558
Availability:
OSTI; NTIS (US Sales Only); INIS
Submitting Site:
INIS
Size:
5 p.
Announcement Date:
Jun 30, 2005

Citation Formats

Afanas`ev, G N. Critical re-examination of Tonomura experiments; Kriticheskoe rassmotrenie ehksperimentov Tonomury. USSR: N. p., 1990. Web.
Afanas`ev, G N. Critical re-examination of Tonomura experiments; Kriticheskoe rassmotrenie ehksperimentov Tonomury. USSR.
Afanas`ev, G N. 1990. "Critical re-examination of Tonomura experiments; Kriticheskoe rassmotrenie ehksperimentov Tonomury." USSR.
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abstractNote = {The ingenious Tonomura et al. experiments testing the existence of the Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect is analyzed. It turns out that they can be described with both singlevalued and multivalued wave functions. Thus, the Tonomura experiments neither confirm nor reject the AB effect existence. A slight modification of these experiments is proposed which can resolve the above ambiguity and elucidate the possible used of multivalued wave functions in multiconnected space regions. 10 refs.; 2 figs.}
place = {USSR}
year = {1990}
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