Relativistic Aharonov-Bohm effect in the presence of planar Coulomb potentials
- Physics Department, Moscow State University, 119899 Moscow (Russian Federation)
Exact analytic solutions are found to the Dirac equation in 2+1 dimensions for a combination of an Aharonov-Bohm potential and the Lorentz three-vector and scalar Coulomb potentials. By means of the solutions obtained the relativistic quantum Aharonov-Bohm effect is studied for the free (in the presence of a Lorentz three-vector Coulomb potential) and bound fermion states. We obtain the total scattering amplitude in a combination of the Aharonov-Bohm and Lorentz three-vector Coulomb potentials as a sum of two scattering amplitudes. This modifies the expression for the standard Aharonov-Bohm cross section due to the interference of these two amplitudes with each other. We discuss that the observable quantities can be the phases of electron wave functions or the energies of bound states.
- OSTI ID:
- 20650177
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review. A, Vol. 71, Issue 1; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.71.012105; (c) 2005 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1050-2947
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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