MORE THAN ONE MYSTERY - QUANTUM INTERFERENCE WITH CORRELATED CHARGED-PARTICLES AND MAGNETIC-FIELDS

Examples of charged-particle interferometry are descibed whereby isolated magnetic fields-i.e., fields through which the particles do not pass-influence the clustering, as well as spatial distribution, of the particles. The configurations, which combine features characteristic of (i) Aharonov-Bohm and Hanbury Brown-Twiss experiments, and (ii) Aharonov-Bohm and Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen experiments, manifest simultaneously the effects of three distinct kinds of interference: (i) interference, dependent upon optical path length difference, resulting from wavelike propagation of particles; (ii) interference, dependent upon confined magnetic flux, resulting from particle charge and spatial topology; and (iii) interference, dependent upon quantum statistics, resulting from particle indistinguishability under exchange.