NONEXISTENCE OF THE AHARONOV-BOHM EFFECT .2. DISCUSSION OF THE EXPERIMENTS

Some theoretical points of a previous paper on the same subject are further developed. In particular, it is shown that 1) the elementary treatments of the Aharonov-Bohm effect are vitiated by a false conception of the electron wave phase; 2) the Aharonov-Bohm effect is a consequence of an improper choice of the initial condition, or-alternatively-of the choice of an improper Green's propagator for the initial wave function. Then, the most significant experiments on the Aharonov-Bohm effect are discussed; it is shown that they are not probative, and a simple explanation is proposed. © 1979 Società Italiana di Fisica.