Sharpening the Gravitational Aharonov-Bohm effect

Abstract

We study the recent gravitational analogue of the Aharonov-Bohm effect for a classical system, namely a complex scalar field. We use this example to demonstrate that the Aharonov-Bohm effect in principle has nothing to do with quantum-mechanics. We then discuss how this classical field description can be connected to the standard one particle quantum description of the Aharonov-Bohm effect.

Preprint version of paper accepted in Modern Physics Letters A. Comments are welcome

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