Quantum motion of a point particle in the presence of the Aharonov-Bohm potential in curved space

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2015.09.011zbMATH Open1343.81094arXiv1502.07151OpenAlexW2962843196WikidataQ62039524 ScholiaQ62039524MaRDI QIDQ738262FDOQ738262

Authors: Edilberto O. Silva, Sérgio C. Ulhoa, F. M. Andrade, Cleverson Filgueiras, R. G. G. Amorim 

Publication date: 2 September 2016

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

Abstract: The nonrelativistic quantum dynamics of a spinless charged particle in the presence of the Aharonov--Bohm potential in curved space is considered. We chose the surface as being a cone defined by a line element in polar coordinates. The geometry of this line element establishes that the motion of the particle can occur on the surface of a cone or an anti--cone. As a consequence of the nontrivial topology of the cone and also because of two--dimensional confinement, the geometric potential should be taken into account. At first, we establish the conditions for the particle describing a circular path in such a context. Because of the presence of the geometric potential, which contains a singular term, we use the self--adjoint extension method in order to describe the dynamics in all space including the singularity. Expressions are obtained for the bound state energies and wave functions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.07151

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zbMATH Keywords

bound stateself-adjoint extensiongeometric potentialAharonov-Bohm problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Quantum mechanics on special spaces: manifolds, fractals, graphs, lattices (81Q35)

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