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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.
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Giardino, S. Quaternionic Aharonov–Bohm Effect. Adv. Appl. Clifford Algebras 27, 2445–2456 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00006-017-0766-2
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