Reply to “Comment on ‘Role of potentials in the Aharonov-Bohm effect’ ”

Lev Vaidman
Phys. Rev. A 92, 026102 – Published 31 August 2015

Abstract

The preceding Comment challenged my claim that potentials might be just auxiliary mathematical tools and that they are not necessary for explaining physical phenomena. The Comment did not confront my explanation without the potentials of the Aharonov-Bohm effects that appeared in the original article, but stated that I cannot apply this explanation for seven other examples. In my reply, using my method, I provide explanations of one of the examples, show that two other examples are not relevant, and agree that the remaining examples require further analysis. However, I argue that none of the examples provides robust counterexamples to my claim, similar to the original Aharonov-Bohm setups which were explained in my article, so the Comment does not refute my claim.

  • Received 15 July 2015

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.92.026102

©2015 American Physical Society

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Lev Vaidman

  • Raymond and Beverly Sackler School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel

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Comment on “Role of potentials in the Aharonov-Bohm effect”

Yakir Aharonov, Eliahu Cohen, and Daniel Rohrlich
Phys. Rev. A 92, 026101 (2015)

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Role of potentials in the Aharonov-Bohm effect

Lev Vaidman
Phys. Rev. A 86, 040101(R) (2012)

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Vol. 92, Iss. 2 — August 2015

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