Aharonov--Bohm Effect in 3D Abelian Higgs Theory

Abstract

We study a field--theoretical analogue of the Aharonov--Bohm effect in the 3D Abelian Higgs Model: the corresponding topological interaction is proportional to the linking number of the vortex and the particle world trajectories. We show that the Aharonov--Bohm effect gives rise to a nontrivial interaction of tested charged particles.

LaTeX, 3 pages, 1 figure, uses epsf.sty; talk presented at LATTICE96(topology), St. Louis, USA

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