GRAVITATIONAL AHARONOV-BOHM EFFECT IN A LOCALLY FLAT SPACETIME

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作者
BEZERRA, VB
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[1] Departmento de Fisica, Centro de Ciëncias Exatas e da Natureza, Univerridade Federal da Paraiba, 58059 Joao Pessoa, Pb
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10.1088/0264-9381/8/10/017
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
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A quantum particle is considered in the background gravitational field due to a tubular matter source with axial interior magnetic field and vanishing exterior magnetic field. It is shown that in the locally flat spacetime around this tubular matter source, the wavefunction, the energy spectrum and the probability current depend on the amount of matter and magnetic field. These dependences represent gravitational analogues of the Aharonov-Bohm effect in electrodynamics.
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页码:1939 / 1945
页数:7
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