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Aharonov-Bohm effect for light in a moving medium

2014; American Physical Society; Volume: 90; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1103/physreva.90.012105

1538-4446

Marcelo da Silva Vieira, Alexandre M. de M. Carvalho, C. Furtado,

Terahertz technology and applications

In this paper we propose a way to detect the Aharonov-Bohm effect for light in a moving medium. We use the position-dependent photon wave function to describe the propagation of the photon in order to evaluate the phase shift acquired by the photon while it passes around a rotating cylinder embedded in a viscous fluid. We show that this phase depends on the speed of the fluid as well as the electromagnetic properties of the cylinder.