New Diffraction Experiment on the Electrostatic Aharonov-Bohm Effect
- 10 June 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 54 (23) , 2469-2472
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.54.2469
Abstract
The electrostatic field distribution due to the contact potential difference in a bimetallic wire introduces a quantum phase difference which can be detected in Fresnel and Fraunhofer diffraction experiments by means of an electron microscope.Keywords
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