Phase-space structure and nonlinear dynamics of a charged particle on a helicoidal manifold under a magnetic field
Classical Physics
2026-07-05 v1
Abstract
We analyze the classical dynamics of a charged particle constrained to a helicoidally embedded Riemannian manifold in under a uniform magnetic field in the ambient space. The induced metric and the pulled-back symmetric gauge yield an exact reduction to a one-dimensional nonlinear Hamiltonian system. The resulting effective potential couples geometry and magnetic field, producing transitions between bounded and unbounded motion and a reorganization of phase-space topology. In the asymptotic regime, the dynamics reduces to a harmonic oscillator with and . The system admits a Landau-type semiclassical spectrum and exhibits a geometry--magnetic control parameter governing a chirality transition.
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@article{arxiv.2607.07726,
title = {Phase-space structure and nonlinear dynamics of a charged particle on a helicoidal manifold under a magnetic field},
author = {Abdullah Guvendi and Hassan Hassanabadi and Semra Gurtas Dogan and Omar Mustafa},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.07726},
year = {2026}
}
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13 pages, 6 figures