Re:Electromagnetism is a property of spacetime itself, study...
by vecter on Saturday July 24, 2021 @03:14PM
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Is this A you speak of the electromagnetic vector potential?
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Re:Electromagnetism is a property of spacetime itself, study...
by bifftastic on Saturday July 24, 2021 @03:27PM
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I'm not the person you're replying to, but yes A definitely is the electromagnetic vector potential (from classical electrodynamics). In gauge theory A tells you how to relate the phase of Ψ at nearby points in space/time.
Now that may purely a choice of convention for Ψ at different points in space/time (a choice of "gauge" in the jargon), but where it gets interesting is if your successive nearby points in space/time trace out a closed loop. If your A is such that the phase of Ψ ends up different as a result of going round the loop, you have an electromagnetic field!
Re:Electromagnetism is a property of spacetime itself, study...
by cshimmin on Saturday July 24, 2021 @03:46PM
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Actually since it's a spacetime potential, it's a 4-vector valued. So it's related to both the (three-)vector potential A and the scalar potential V.
Re:Electromagnetism is a property of spacetime itself, study...
by dataflow on Saturday July 24, 2021 @03:38PM
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Related question: is it settled which one is "real"? A or B?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aharonov%E2%80%93Bohm_effect#P...
Re:Electromagnetism is a property of spacetime itself, study...
by nixpulvis on Saturday July 24, 2021 @04:15PM
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Both?
Re:Electromagnetism is a property of spacetime itself, study...
by dataflow on Saturday July 24, 2021 @05:34PM
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Well I'm glad that's settled!
Re:Electromagnetism is a property of spacetime itself, study...
by ufo_pilot on Saturday July 24, 2021 @03:34PM
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The more correct technical term is "electromagnetic four potential", or "four vector".
A is quantum, the electromagnetic potential is classical, so they are not really the same thing.