Geometry-Induced Chiral Currents in a Mesoscopic Helicoidal Quantum Well
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 degeneracy. By imposing hard-wall boundary conditions at , 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 and the axial quantum number . For realistic InAs nanoroll parameters ( nm, ), this geometric effect results in a measurable splitting of 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