Optical Analog of the Aharanov-Bohm Effect

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Optical Analog of the Aharanov-Bohm Effect
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• Prof. Heidi Fearn (1994)
• Physics dept.
• California State University Fullerton.
• APS colloquium talk.

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AbstractElectromagnetic wave eqns in a moving
medium may be approximated by a form similar to
the Schrodinger Eqn for a charged particle in an
em field. The velocity v of the medium and Curl v
plays the role of the vector potential and
magnetic field respectively.
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What is the AB-effect?
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Feynman Lectures on Physics
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Corrections!!
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Am. Jour. Of Physics 40, 56 (1972).
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What the fringe shift should look like.
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Moving medium- Water.
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Lorentz Transformation
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G. C. Babcock and T. G. Bergman Jour. Opt. Soc.
Am. 54, 147 (1964) A P. French, Special
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Moving water type experiment
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Moving Block type experiment
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The End
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• See ya!
• hfearn_at_fullerton.edu