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The Hamiltonian for a particle constrained to move on the surface of a curved nanotube is derived using the methods of differential forms. A two-dimensional Gram-Schmidt orthonormalization procedure is employed to calculate basis functions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Lonnie Mott , Mario Encinosa , Babak Etemadi

We discuss the dynamics of a classical spinless quantum particle carrying electric charge and constrained to move on a non singular static surface in ordinary three dimensional space in the presence of arbitrary configurations of time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 B. Jensen , R. Dandoloff

We investigate the effects of ellipticity-induced curvature on atomic Bose-Einstein condensates confined in quasi-one-dimensional closed-loop waveguides. Our theoretical study reveals intriguing phenomena arising from the interplay between…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-10-24 Yelyzaveta Nikolaieva , Luca Salasnich , Alexander Yakimenko

The electrical properties of a carbon nanotube depend strongly on its lattice structure as defined by chiral and translational vectors. A toroidal shape for a nanotube allows various twisted structures to exist along the direction of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 K. Sasaki , Y. Kawazoe

Optoelectronic and nonlinear transport experiments probe the quantum geometric tensor of Bloch states, whose real and imaginary components -- the quantum metric and the Berry curvature -- are typically constrained by symmetry. Here, we show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Maria Teresa Mercaldo , Mario Cuoco , Carmine Ortix

We investigate the effects of spatial curvature for an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate confined in an elliptical waveguide. The system is well described by an effective 1D Gross-Pitaevskii equation with a quantum-curvature potential, which…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-03-23 L. Salasnich

Madelung's hydrodynamical forms of the Schrodinger equation and the Klein-Gordon equation are presented. The physical nature of the quantum potential is explored. It is demonstrated that the geometrical origin of the quantum potential is in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 D. H. Delphenich

The nonrelativistic quantum dynamics of a spinless charged particle in the presence of the Aharonov--Bohm potential in curved space is considered. We chose the surface as being a cone defined by a line element in polar coordinates. The…

In this work, we investigate the electronic transport properties of curved two-dimensional quantum systems with a position-dependent mass (PDM). We found the Schr\"odinger equation for a general surface following the da Costa approach,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-31 Felipe Serafim , F. A. N. Santos , Jonas R. F. Lima , Cleverson Filgueiras , Fernando Moraes

In this work, we study the scattering of a spinless charged particle constrained to move on a curved surface in the presence of the Aharonov-Bohm potential. We begin with the equations of motion for the surface and transverse dynamics…

We study source-to-sink excitation transport on carbon nanotubes using the concept of quantum walks. In particular, we focus on transport properties of Grover coined quantum walks on ideal and percolation perturbed nanotubes with zig-zag…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Jan Mareš , Jaroslav Novotný , Igor Jex

We investigate the behaviour of a particle moving on the quotient manifold $M=C^2/Z_$ which is derived from the EH metric as the two centers approach each other. In the classical region of the configuration space we specify the physically…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Hatzinikitas

We describe calculations of the properties of quantum fluids inside nanotubes of various sizes. Very small radius ($R$) pores confine the gases to a line, so that a one-dimensional (1D) approximation is applicable; the low temperature…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Nathan M. Urban , Milton W. Cole

The gapless edge modes of the Quantum Spin Hall insulator form a helical liquid in which the direction of motion along the edge is determined by the spin orientation of the electrons. In order to probe the Luttinger liquid physics of these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-14 Romain Vasseur , Joel E. Moore

When a quantum particle moves in a curved space, a geometric potential can arise. In spite of a long history of extensive theoretical studies, to experimentally observe the geometric potential remains to be a challenge. What are the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-23 Li-Li Ye , Chen-Di Han , Liang Huang , Ying-Cheng Lai

A nonrelativistic quantum mechanical particle moving freely on a curved surface feels the effect of the nontrivial geometry of the surface through the kinetic part of the Hamiltonian, which is proportional to the Laplace-Beltrami operator,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-09 Neslihan Oflaz , Ali Mostafazadeh , Mehrdad Ahmady

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

When a two-dimensional curved surface is conceived as a limiting case of a curved shell of equal thickness d, where the limit d\rightarrow0 is then taken, the well-known geometric potential is induced by the kinetic energy operator, in fact…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-09-27 Q. H. Liu

We concentrate on the geometric potential in the invariant perturbation theory of quantum adiabatic process which is presented in our recent papers. It is found out to be related to the geodesic curvature of the spherical curve in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-06-13 Mei-sheng Zhao , Jian-da Wu , Jian-lan Chen , Yong-de Zhang

We give a partial answer to the question whether the Schrodinger equation can be derived from the Newtonian mechanics of a particle in a potential subject to a random force. We show that the fluctuations around the classical motion of a one…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Can Gokler