In this video, we dive into one of the most mindbending phenomena in quantum mechanics: the AharonovBohm effect. Discover how electrons behave in bizarre ways when influenced by magnetic fields, even in regions where the field is zero. This surprising quantum behavior challenges our classical intuitions and highlights the strange nature of the quantum world.

What You'll Learn:

How the AharonovBohm effect modifies the classic doubleslit experiment and introduces magnetic fields
The role of the vector potential in describing magnetic fields and its implications in quantum mechanics.
How the Schrödinger equation is used to model electrons in magnetic fields.
How the vector potential can be nonzero even in the absence of magnetic fields.
How a faraway magnetic field can influence electrons.

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Timestamps:

00:00 Intro
01:06 Double Slit Interference
01:53 The Experiment
03:40 Unraveling the Mystery
04:50 Mastering Magnets
06:12 Divergence and Curl
08:20 Vector Potential
10:35 Exploring Electrons
12:09 Schrödinger equation
15:03 The Synthesis
22:34 The Conclusion
25:06 A Puzzling Puzzle

Extras:
A useful note on minimal coupling (Schrödinger equation for magnetic fields): https://physics.stackexchange.com/q/5...

Note that in the video, the field Φ in the above answer has been chosen to be 0 for simplicity, which is permitted due to gauge invariance.


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