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Abelian and non-Abelian topological behavior of a neutral spin-1/2 particle in a background magnetic field
B. Zygelman
We present results of a numerical experiment in which a neutral spin-1/2 particle subjected to a static magnetic vortex field passes through a double-slit barrier. We demonstrate t…
The Molecular Aharonov-Bohm effect Redux
B. Zygelman
A solvable molecular collision model that predicts Aharonov-Bohm (AB) like scattering in the adiabatic approximation is introduced. For it, we propagate coupled channel wave packet…
Geometric Phase Atom Optics and Interferometry
Bernard Zygelman
We illustrate how geometric gauge forces and topological phase effects emerge in quantum systems without employing assumptions that rely on adiabaticity. We show how geometric magn…
Cold ion-atom chemistry driven by spontaneous radiative relaxation: a case study for the formation of the YbCa^{+} molecular ion
B. Zygelman, Zelimir Lucic, Eric R. Hudson
Using both quantum and semi-classical methods, we calculate the rates for radiative association and charge transfer in cold collisions of Yb+ with Ca.
Comment on "Measurement of a large Chemical Reaction Rate between Ultracold Closed-Shell ^{40}Ca Atoms and Open-Shell ^{174}Yb^{+} Ions Held in a Hybrid Atom-Ion Trap"
B. Zygelman, Robert Hunt
We estimate the radiative quenching rate of the Ca - Yb molecular ion and find that it under-estimates the value reported in recent experiments by about 5 orde…
Geometric Phase Optics
B. Zygelman
We introduce, and propagate wave-packet solutions of, a single qubit system in which geometric gauge forces and phases emerge. We investigate under what conditions non-trivial gaug…