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Elastic field causing noncommutativity

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2026-02-10 v1

Abstract

We study how a uniform torsion background, modeling a continuous density of screw dislocations and induces effective spatial noncommutativity and reshapes the energy spectrum of a free quantum particle. Within the geometric theory of defects, the metric yields a first-order (magnetic-like) coupling in the transverse dynamics, equivalent to an effective magnetic field BeffB_{eff} proportional to pzOmegap_z Omega, where OmegaOmega encodes the torsion strength. In the strong-coupling (Landau) regime, the planar coordinates obey [x,y] != 0 and the spectrum organizes into Landau-like levels with a slight electric-field-driven tilt and a uniform shift. Thus, increasing OmegaOmega drives the system continuously toward the familiar Landau problem in flat space, with torsion setting the noncommutativity scale and controlling the approach to the Landau limit.

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@article{arxiv.2602.08604,
  title  = {Elastic field causing noncommutativity},
  author = {A. L. Silva Netto and A. M. de M. Carvalho and G. Q. Garcia and C. Furtado},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.08604},
  year   = {2026}
}

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5 pages

R2 v1 2026-07-01T10:27:50.115Z