Schrödinger formalism for a particle constrained to a surface in R13

DOI10.1063/1.5078442zbMATH Open1414.81098arXiv1805.07428OpenAlexW3104587919WikidataQ124972543 ScholiaQ124972543MaRDI QIDQ4628751FDOQ4628751

Author name not available (Why is that?)

Publication date: 15 March 2019

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

Abstract: In this work it is studied the Schr"odinger equation for a non-relativistic particle restricted to move on a surface $S$ in a three-dimensional Minkowskian medium $mathbb{R}_1^3$, i.e., the space $mathbb{R}^3$ equipped with the metric $extdiag(-1,1,1)$. After establishing the consistency of the interpretative postulates for the new Schr"odinger equation, namely the conservation of probability and the hermiticity of the new Hamiltonian built out of the Laplacian in $mathbb{R}_1^3$, we investigate the confining potential formalism in the new effective geometry. Like in the well-known Euclidean case, it is found a geometry-induced potential acting on the dynamics $V_S=-frachba{r}^{2}2mleft(varepsilon{H}^2-Kight)$ which, besides the usual dependence on the mean ($H$) and Gaussian ($K$) curvatures of the surface, has the remarkable feature of a dependence on the signature of the induced metric of the surface: $varepsilon=+1$ if the signature is $(-,+)$, and $varepsilon=1$ if the signature is $(+,+)$. Applications to surfaces of revolution in $mathbb{R}_1^3$ are examined, and we provide examples where the Schr"odinger equation is exactly solvable. It is hoped that our formalism will prove useful in the modeling of novel materials such as hyperbolic metamaterials, which are characterized by a hyperbolic dispersion relation, in contrast to the usual spherical (elliptic) dispersion typically found in conventional materials.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.07428

Recommendations

• Constrained dynamics for quantum mechanics. I. Restricting a particle to a surface
• Quantum dynamics of a particle constrained to Lie on a surface
• On the Schrödinger equation with potential concentrated on a surface
• Schrödinger equations on \(\mathbb{R}^3 \times \mathcal{M}\) with non-separable potential
• Quantum mechanics of a constrained particle and the problem of prescribed geometry-induced potential
• Notes on the quantum mechanics of particles constrained to curved surfaces
• Quantum mechanical treatment of a constrained particle on two dimensional sphere
• Geometric description of the Schrödinger equation in \((3n+1)\)-dimensional configuration space
• Self-adjoint extension of the Schrödinger operator with a potential concentrated on the surface
• Exact solution of the Schrödinger equation for a particle in a regular \(N\)-simplex

zbMATH Keywords

metamaterialshyperbolic dispersionSchrödinger equation on surfaces of revolution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Special relativity (83A05) Relativistic dynamics for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H40) Holonomic systems related to the dynamics of a system of particles (70F20)

Cites Work

• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Bound states in curved quantum waveguides
• Bound states in curved quantum layers
• The quantum free particle on spherical and hyperbolic spaces: A curvature dependent approach
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• An indefinite Laplacian on a rectangle
• On the quantum mechanics of a particle constrained to generalized cylinders with application to Möbius strips
• Quantum waveguides
• Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces in Lorentz-Minkowski space
• Quantum mechanics of a constrained particle and the problem of prescribed geometry-induced potential
• A Curved Noninteracting 2D Electron Gas with Anisotropic Mass

Cited In (4)

• Constrained dynamics for quantum mechanics. I. Restricting a particle to a surface
• Effective description of a quantum particle constrained to a catenoid
• Modifications of Electron States, Magnetization, and Persistent Current in a Quantum Dot by Controlled Curvature
• Quantum dynamics of a particle constrained to Lie on a surface

This page was built for publication: Schrödinger formalism for a particle constrained to a surface in R13

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q4628751)