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We present the N=2 supersymmetric formulation for the classical and quantum dynamics of a nonrelativistic charged particle on a curved surface in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field. For a particle moving on a constant-curvature…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Seok Kim , Choonkyu Lee

Investigating the geometric effects resulting from the detailed behaviors of the confining potential, we consider square and circular confinements to constrain a particle to a space curve. We find a torsion-induced geometric potential and a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-18 Yong-Long Wang , Meng-Yun Lai , Fan Wang , Hong-Shi Zong , Yan-Feng Chen

We consider the quantum mechanics of a particle on a noncommutative plane. The case of a charged particle in a magnetic field (the Landau problem) with a harmonic oscillator potential is solved. There is a critical point, where the density…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-05-05 V. P. Nair , A. P. Polychronakos

The Schr\"odinger equation is shown to be equivalent to a constrained Liouville equation under the assumption that phase space is extended to Grassmann algebra valued variables. For onedimensional systems, the underlying Hamiltonian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 H. -T. Elze

In this paper we present the first steps for obtaining a discrete Quantum Mechanics making use of the Umbral Calculus. The idea is to discretize the continuous Schroedinger equation substituting the continuous derivatives by discrete ones…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-05-15 E. Lopez-Sendino , J. Negro , M. A. del Olmo , E. Salgado

The momentum operator for a spin-less particle when confined to a 2D surface embedded into 3D space acquires a geometrical component proportional to the mean curvature that renders it Hermitian. As a consequence, the quantum force operator…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-16 M. S. Shikakhwa

This paper introduces the way of the embedding of spinning particle quantum mechanically. Schr\"odinger equation on its submanifold obtains the gauge field as spin connection, and it reduces to the ones obtained by Ohnuki and Kitakado when…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Naohisa Ogawa

In classical physics, there is a basic principle, namely "A particle cannot be located at the position of another one on the same time". Which consequences can be derived if this principle is transferred into quantum physics? For doing…

General Physics · Physics 2025-07-03 Gottfried Mann

Since electrons in a ballistic regime perceive a carbon nanotube or a graphene layer structure as a continuous medium, we can use the study of the quantum dynamics of one electron constrained to a curve or surface to obtain a qualitative…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-24 J. D. M. de Lima , E. Gomes , F. F. da Silva Filho , F. Moraes , R. Teixeira

The experimental progress in synthesizing low-dimensional nanostructures where carriers are confined to bent surfaces has boosted the interest in the theory of quantum mechanics on curved two-dimensional manifolds. It was recently asserted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-03 Carmine Ortix , Jeroen van den Brink

The curvature potential arising from confining a particle initially in three-dimensional space onto a curved surface is normally derived in the hard constraint $q \to 0$ limit, with $q$ the degree of freedom normal to the surface. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 M. Encinosa , L. Mott , B. Etemadi

We develop a general approach to study three-dimensional Schroedinger operators with confining potentials depending on the distance to a surface. The main idea is to apply parallel coordinates based on the surface but outside its cut locus…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-02-05 David Krejcirik , Jan Kriz

In the spirit of the thin-layer quantization approach, we give the formula of the geometric influences of a particle confined to a curved surface embedded in three-dimensional Euclidean space. The geometric contributions can result from the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-11 Yong-Long Wang , Hua Jiang , Hong-Shi Zong

The effect of the curvature of a cylindrical surface on the energy spectrum for a curved two-dimensional electron gas in a homogeneous magnetic field is considered. The corrections to the energy spectrum are obtained for the first time…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-05 H. Pahlavani , M. Botshekananfard

We study quantum mechanics on a curved wire by approximating the physics around the curved region by three parameters coming from the boundary conditions given by the two interval Sturm-Liouville theory. Since the geometric potential on a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-02 João Paulo M. Pitelli , Ricardo A. Mosna , Felipe Felix Souto

We have previously presented a version of the Weak Equivalence Principle for a quantum particle as an exact analog of the classical case, based on the Heisenberg picture analysis of free particle motion. Here, we take that to a full…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-17 Otto C. W. Kong

The motion of quantum particles homogeneously constrained to a curved surface is affected by a curvature induced geometric potential. Here, we consider the case of inhomogeneous confinement and derive the effective Hamiltonian by extending…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-01 Guo-Hua Liang , Meng-Yun Lai

The quantization of a single particle without spin in an appropriate curved space-time is considered. The Hamilton formalism on reduced space for a particle in a curved space-time is constructed and the main aspects of quantization scheme…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 D. A. Kalinin

We consider a quantum particle constrained to a curved layer of a constant width built over an infinite smooth surface. We suppose that the latter is a locally deformed plane and that the layer has the hard-wall boundary. Under this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-30 P. Duclos , P. Exner , D. Krejcirik

We propose that the Schrodinger equation results from applying the classical wave equation to describe the physical system in which subatomic particles play random motion, thereby leading to quantum mechanics. The physical reality described…

General Physics · Physics 2022-04-18 Xue-Shu Zhao , Yu-Ru Ge , Xin Zhao , Hong Zhao