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Geometry-Induced Chiral Currents in a Mesoscopic Helicoidal Quantum Well

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2025-07-08 v1 Quantum Physics

Abstract

We introduce a mesoscopic quantum well whose confinement and chirality emerge solely from the intrinsic torsion of a finite helicoidal metric. This purely geometric construction requires no external gates or fields: the metric itself induces both a harmonic radial potential and a torsion-driven Zeeman term that breaks the mmm \leftrightarrow -m degeneracy. By imposing hard-wall boundary conditions at z=±L/2z = \pm L/2, we quantize the axial motion and obtain a genuinely zero-dimensional helicoidal quantum dot. An exact analytic solution reveals an energy spectrum with chiral splitting linear in both the torsion parameter Ω\Omega and the axial quantum number nzn_z. For realistic InAs nanoroll parameters (L=100L = 100 nm, Ω=5×106m1\Omega = 5\times10^{6} \mathrm{m^{-1}}), this geometric effect results in a measurable splitting of 0.5\sim 0.5 meV. We propose three viable experimental platforms, ultracold atoms in optical traps, femtosecond-written photonic waveguides, and strain-engineered semiconductor nanorolls, where this torsion-induced phenomenon should be accessible with current technology.

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@article{arxiv.2507.05015,
  title  = {Geometry-Induced Chiral Currents in a Mesoscopic Helicoidal Quantum Well},
  author = {Edilberto O. Silva},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.05015},
  year   = {2025}
}

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11 pages, 9 figures, 1 table

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