AHARONOV-BOHM EFFECT IN LATTICE FIELD-THEORY

Authors
ZUBKOV MA POLIKARPOV MI
Citation
Ma. Zubkov et Mi. Polikarpov, AHARONOV-BOHM EFFECT IN LATTICE FIELD-THEORY, JETP letters, 57(8), 1993, pp. 461-463
Citations number
7
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
JETP letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00213640
Volume
57
Issue
8
Year of publication
1993
Pages
461 - 463
Database
ISI
SICI code
0021-3640(1993)57:8<461:AEILF>2.0.ZU;2-B
Abstract
The generating functional of an Abelian Higgs model is expressed as a sum over world surfaces of Nielsen-Olsen strings. It is shown that the re exists a nontrivial topological interaction which corresponds to th e Aharonov-Bohm effect in field theory.