Abstract
Ever since the seminal work of Aharonov and Bohm it has been realized that electromagnetic fields affect the state of matter even in spatial regions, where they do not excert any forces. This is due to the nonlocal character of quantum-mechanics which may lead to the appearance of so-called topological phases.
© 1994 Optical Society of America
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