New scenarios for classical and quantum mechanical systems with position-dependent mass

DOI10.1007/S40509-015-0037-7MaRDI QIDQ892959zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors N. E. Zubov

Publication date 12 November 2015

Published in Quantum Studies: Mathematics and Foundations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.05217

zbMATH Keywords

dimensional reductionposition-dependent massKaluza-Klein theorynonlinear quantum oscillator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

NLS equations (nonlinear Schrödinger equations) (35Q55) Lagrange's equations (70H03) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15)

Abstract: An inhomogeneous Kaluza-Klein compactification to four dimensions, followed by a conformal transformation, results in a system with position dependent mass (PDM). This origin of a PDM is quite different from the condensed matter one. A substantial generalization of a previously studied nonlinear oscillator with variable mass is obtained, wherein the position dependence of the mass of a nonrelativistic particle is due to a dilatonic coupling function emerging from the extra dimension. Previously obtained solutions for such systems can be extended and reinterpreted as nonrelativistic particles interacting with dilaton fields, which, themselves, can have interesting structures. An application is presented for the nonlinear oscillator, where within the new scenario the particle is coupled to a dilatonic string.

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