Aharonov-Bohm effects on nearly-localized quantum states
Y Nagoshi, Shuji Takagi
The authors consider a charged particle confined to a ring encircling a magnetic flux. Supposing that the particle is trapped by a delta-function potential located on the ring, they examine the flux dependence of the energy and the wavefunction of the bound state. This offers a simple explicit model for the Aharonov-Bohm effect on a system localized, but not completely confined, to a simply connected region off a magnetic flux. The result is used to show that Berry's phase for the bound state, when the delta-function potential is slowly transported around the ring, consists not only of the Aharonov-Bohm phase proportional to the flux, but also of an extra term which reflects the incomplete localization of the state; in the limit of strong binding the extra term depends sinusoidally on the flux.
Journal of Physics A Mathematical and General•Sep 7, 1991•3 citations