Aditya Singh

I am a PhD student studying the interactions between capillary waves and vortices. Currently I am working on creating an experimental set up that allows us to look at the hydrodynamical analogue of the Aharonov-Bohm effect.  The Aharonov-Bohm effect originally came from Quantum Mechanics. It is known that whenever a charged particle moves through a region where a magnetic field is present it aquires a phase. What the Aharonov-Bohm effect showcased was, that a charged particle can aquire a phase shift even when it passes through a region where a field is not present and it thereby showcased the importance of the potentials. 
We can recreate this effect by using water waves generated on the surface of water that approach a vortex, and acquire a similar phase shift.
 

Previously at Ashoka University I have worked on, how does surface tension affect the vector potential of water waves when we are in the intermediate regime of gravity-capillary waves.