Aharonov-Bohm Effects for Electromagnetism and Gravity in Four-Dimensional Spacetime

Abstract

This paper investigates a geometric framework for the gravitational Aharonov-Bohm effect in four-dimensional spacetime, demonstrating how spacetime curvature induces nonlocal quantum phase shifts within field-free regions. By constructing vector bundles on spacetime manifolds equipped with Levi-Civita connections, we derive the holonomy transformations for parallel-transported quantum states. Under the Newtonian approximation, metric decomposition into Minkowski background plus scalar potential perturbations reveals through the linearized Einstein field equations that the gravitationally induced phase shift is mathematically isomorphic to its electromagnetic counterpart. These results establish the quantum observability of gravitational gauge structures and provide theoretical support for experimental verification via atom interferometry.