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In a sequel to our previous paper we discuss two thought experiments which show that potentials in force-free regions have not only a nonlocal physically measurable significance (via, e.g., ∮A ·dl), but, in singly connected portions of that region, also have a necessary local significance (via their quantum spread ΔA, which cannot be neglected). We then show, in continuation to the foregoing paper, how suchA arise “geometrically” as kinematic quantities associated with the transformation between “quantum-related” reference frames, e.g., when the relative frame velocities areq-numbers possessing a quantum spread.
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Y. Aharonov and G. Carmi,Found. Phys. 3, 493 (1973).
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On leave of absence from the Departments of Physics of Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel, and of Yeshiva University, New York, New York.
Supported by the NSF under Contract GP-14911.
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Aharonov, Y., Carmi, G. Quantum-related reference frames and the local physical significance of potentials. Found Phys 4, 75–81 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00708556
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00708556