POLES OF LOCAL CLASSICAL ACCELERATION AND SPATIAL SEPARATION IN THE NEUTRAL PARTICLE ANALOGS OF THE AHARONOV-BOHM PHASES

I show that neither local nonuniform classical acceleration nor spatial separation of the quantized spin components plays an essential role in a number of neutron interferometer experiments designed to detect phases φ±(B,E) akin to the Aharonov-Bohm phases. These neutral particle phases, which simply manifest quantum interference in spin space, can also be detected by single beams, as exemplified by a recent breakthrough experiment by Sangster et al. © 1994 The American Physical Society.