@inbook{8b3d31f5c22b49ef91c97fc6b44f29b2,
title = "Aharonov-Casher effect",
abstract = "In 1984, 25 years after the prediction of the ► Aharonov—Bohm (AB) effect, Aharonov and Casher [1] predicted a “dual” effect. In both effects, a particle is excluded from a tubular region of space, but otherwise no force acts on it. Yet it acquires a measurable quantum phase that depends on what is inside the tube of space from which it is excluded. In the AB effect, the particle is charged and the tube contains a magnetic flux. In the Aharonov—Casher (AC) effect, the particle is neutral, but has a magnetic moment, and the tube contains a line of charge. Experiments in neutron [2], vortex [3], atom [4], and electron [5] interferometry bear out the prediction of Aharonov and Casher. Here we briefly explain the logic of the AC effect and how it is dual to the AB effect.",
keywords = "Wave Packet, Relative Phase, Neutral Particle, Electron Wave Packet, Bohm Effect",
author = "Rohrlich, {Daniel Mosheh}",
year = "2009",
language = "English",
isbn = "1-283-00370-8",
series = "Compendium of Quantum Physics",
publisher = "Springer Berlin Heidelberg",
pages = "3--6",
booktitle = "Compendium of Quantum Physics Concepts, Experiments, History and Philosophy",
edition = "1st ed. 2009.",
}