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Is the magnetic vector potential "real" in classical electromagnetism?
From how I've learned it in school the magnetic vector potential is used as a mathematical tool to simplify problems with current-carrying wires in classical electromagnetism, but is never treated as ...
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Can potentials be used to transmit energy and information?
The famous Aharonov-Bohm effect displays the potential of the physical implications of different potential gauges in em theory.
I saw very few experimental and theoretical investigations into this ...
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Aharonov-Bohm Effect and the role of phase is unclear to me
I have a problem of understanding. In QM, the phase factor of a wave function does not change the probability density. It does change the probability current density though. What is the physical ...
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What would it mean for Aharanov-Bohm effect in a gauge in which the vector potential vanishes everywhere outside the solenoid?
Is it possible to find a gauge in which the vector potential outside the solenoid (with axis along $z$-axis) is made equal to zero everywhere? If so, wouldn't the phase difference in the Aharanov-Bohm ...
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