Aharonov-Casher phase in an atomic system
- 1 March 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 51 (3) , 1776-1786
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.51.1776
Abstract
We describe an experimental configuration suitable for observing the geometric phase of Aharonov and Casher in atomic systems. Using this we have been able to show experimentally that the Aharonov-Casher phase is both independent of velocity and proportional to an electric field and we have verified the predicted size of the effect with an accuracy of 2%.Keywords
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