Photonic Aharonov–Bohm effect in photon–phonon interactions

摘要: The Aharonov–Bohm effect is one of the most intriguing phenomena in both classical and quantum physics, and associates with a number important fundamental issues in quantum mechanics. effects charged particles have been experimentally demonstrated found applications various fields. Recently, attention has also focused on for neutral particles, such as photons. Here we propose to utilize photon–phonon interactions to demonstrate that photonic Aharonov–Bohm effects do exist By introducing nonreciprocal phases photons, observe experimentally gauge potential photons visible range based photon– phonon acousto-optic crystals, Aharonov–Bohm effect. results presented here point new possibilities control manipulate photons by designing an effective potential.