Sergio Giardino
Instituto de Matemática e Estatística
Departamento de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (email)
Departamento de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (email)
A quaternionic analog of the Aharonov–Bohm effect is developed without the usual anti-hermitian operators in quaternionic quantum mechanics. A quaternionic phase links the solutions obtained to ordinary complex wave functions, and new theoretical studies and experimental tests are possible for them.