Path integration in the field of a topological defect: the case of dispiration

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/45/7/075301zbMATH Open1247.81242arXiv1110.2044OpenAlexW2160810799MaRDI QIDQ3224924FDOQ3224924

G. Junker, A. Inomata, James E. Raynolds

Publication date: 13 March 2012

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The motion of a particle in the field of dispiration (due to a wedge disclination and a screw dislocation) is studied by path integration. By gauging $SO(2)otimesT(1)$, first, we derive the metric, curvature, and torsion of the medium of dispiration. Then we carry out explicitly path integration for the propagator of a particle moving in the non-Euclidean medium under the influence of a scalar potential and a vector potential. We obtain also the winding number representation of the propagator by taking the non-trivial topological structure of the medium into account. We extract the energy spectrum and the eigenfunctions from the propagator. Finally we make some remarks for special cases. Particularly, paying attention to the difference between the result of the path integration and the solution of Schr"odinger's equation in the case of disclination, we suggest that Schr"odinger equation may have to be modified by a curvature term.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.2044

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15) Disordered systems (random Ising models, random Schrödinger operators, etc.) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B44) Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30) Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40)

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