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Disturbance without the force

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Charged particles influenced by electromagnetic fields, even when the two never touch? Surely, it can only be quantum physics. But surprisingly, the quantum nature of this particular effect has been disputed.

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Figure 1: The Aharonov–Bohm effect.

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  1. Akira Tonomura is at Hitachi Ltd, Hatoyama, Saitama 350-0395, Japan, and at RIKEN and the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan. akira.tonomura.zk@hitachi.com,

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  2. Franco Nori is at the Frontier Research System, RIKEN, Wako-shi, Saitama 351-0198, Japan, and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. fnori@riken.jp,

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