Fringing fields and criticisms of the Aharonov-Bohm effect
Harry J. Lipkin
A recent paper attributes the Aharonov-Bohm effect to the fringing field leaking out of a finite solenoid rather than to the magnetic flux in the excluded region. This argument is seen to be absurd for a very long solenoid where the effect is attributed to the tail of the electron wave function very far from the point of measurement, and is completely refuted by toroidal geometry with no fringing field.
Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields•Mar 15, 1981•13 citations