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Auteurs principaux: Rozenman, Georgi Gary, McKee, Kyle I., Lazarus, Arnaud, Frumkin, Valeri, Bush, John W M
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Publié: 2025
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Accès en ligne:https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.21263
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author Rozenman, Georgi Gary
McKee, Kyle I.
Lazarus, Arnaud
Frumkin, Valeri
Bush, John W M
author_facet Rozenman, Georgi Gary
McKee, Kyle I.
Lazarus, Arnaud
Frumkin, Valeri
Bush, John W M
contents We report the results of an experimental study of an analog of the Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect achieved with the hydrodynamic pilot-wave system. A walking droplet is confined to an annular cavity that encircles a shielded vortex, but lies outside its range of direct influence. While there is no vortex-induced flow in the immediate vicinity of the droplets, the vortex modifies the droplet's spatially extended pilot-wave field that guides its motion, producing a vortex-dependent bias in the droplet's orbital speed. High-speed tracking and delay-embedding reconstructions yield Wigner-like phase-space distributions for this hydrodynamic system that exhibits a rigid, flux-dependent translation, providing a force-free, gauge-like realization of an AB-type phase.
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spellingShingle Observation of the Aharonov-Bohm Effect in Pilot-Wave Hydrodynamics
Rozenman, Georgi Gary
McKee, Kyle I.
Lazarus, Arnaud
Frumkin, Valeri
Bush, John W M
Fluid Dynamics
Quantum Physics
We report the results of an experimental study of an analog of the Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect achieved with the hydrodynamic pilot-wave system. A walking droplet is confined to an annular cavity that encircles a shielded vortex, but lies outside its range of direct influence. While there is no vortex-induced flow in the immediate vicinity of the droplets, the vortex modifies the droplet's spatially extended pilot-wave field that guides its motion, producing a vortex-dependent bias in the droplet's orbital speed. High-speed tracking and delay-embedding reconstructions yield Wigner-like phase-space distributions for this hydrodynamic system that exhibits a rigid, flux-dependent translation, providing a force-free, gauge-like realization of an AB-type phase.
title Observation of the Aharonov-Bohm Effect in Pilot-Wave Hydrodynamics
topic Fluid Dynamics
Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.21263