AHARONOV-BOHM SCATTERING, CONTACT INTERACTIONS, AND SCALE-INVARIANCE

Authors
BERGMAN O LOZANO G
Citation
O. Bergman et G. Lozano, AHARONOV-BOHM SCATTERING, CONTACT INTERACTIONS, AND SCALE-INVARIANCE, Annals of physics, 229(2), 1994, pp. 416-427
Citations number
29
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Annals of physics → ACNP
ISSN journal
00034916
Volume
229
Issue
2
Year of publication
1994
Pages
416 - 427
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-4916(1994)229:2<416:ASCIAS>2.0.ZU;2-I
Abstract
We perform a perturbative analysis of the Aharonov-Bohm problem to one loop in a field-theoretic formulation and show that contact interacti ons are necessary for renormalizability. In general, the classical sca le invariance of this problem is broken quantum mechanically. There ex ists, however, a critical point for which this anomaly disappears. (C) 1994 Academic Press, Inc.