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Physical Review Letters

Quantum phase of a moving dipole

Martin Wilkens

Published Jan 3, 1994• 302 citations
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Abstract

It is shown that a neutral particle with an electric dipole moment which moves in a magnetic field acquires a topological phase. This phase may be observed in atom or molecular interferometry.Received 11 August 1993DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.72.5©1994 American Physical Society

DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.72.5

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It is shown that a neutral particle with an electric dipole moment which moves in a magnetic field acquires a topological phase. This phase may be observed in atom or molecular interferometry.Received 11 August 1993DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.72.5©1994 American Physical Society