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Quasi-two-dimensional systems may exibit curvature, which adds three-dimensional influence to their internal properties. As shown by da Costa \cite{dacosta}, charged particles moving on a curved surface experience a curvature-dependent…

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The curvature effect on the electronic states of a deformed cylindrical conducting surface of variable diameter is theoretically investigated. The quantum confinement of electrons normal to the curved surface results in an effective…

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We derive the effective dimensionally reduced Schr\"odinger equation with spin-orbit interaction in low-dimensional electronic strain driven nanostructures. A method of adiabatic separation among fast normal quantum degrees of freedom and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-29 Paola Gentile , Mario Cuoco , Carmine Ortix

We investigate the effect of curvature on the behaviour of a quantum particle bound to move on a surface shaped as a helical tube. We derive and discuss the governing Schr\"odinger equation and the corresponding quantum effective potential…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-21 Victor Atanasov , Rossen Dandoloff

The low-temperature electrical resistivity of corrugated semiconductor films is theoretically considered. Nanoscale corrugation enhances the electron-electron scattering contribution to the resistivity, resulting in a stepwise resistivity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Shota Ono , Hiroyuki Shima

The recently invented cylindrical geometric space defect is applied to the electron behaviour in the system which can be regarded as a simplified model of a double-wall nanotube. By solving the Schrodinger equation in the region of space…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-01-24 G. de Berredo-Peixoto , M. O. Katanaev , E. Konstantinova , I. L. Shapiro

The propagation of matter waves in curved geometry is relevant for electrons in nano-wires, solid-state physics structures and atomtronics. Curvature effects are usually addressed within the adiabatic limit and treated via an effective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-06 François Impens , Romain Duboscq , David Guéry-Odelin

Research into electronic nanomaterials has recently seen a growing focus into the synthesis of structures with unconventional curved geometries including bent wires in planar systems and three-dimensional architectures obtained by rolling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-15 Paola Gentile , Mario Cuoco , Oleksii M. Volkov , Zu-Jian Ying , Ivan J. Vera-Marun , Denys Makarov , Carmine Ortix

Effects of periodic curvature on the the electrical resistivity of corrugated semiconductor films are theoretically considered. The presence of a curvature-induced potential affects the motion of electrons confined to the thin curved film,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Shota Ono , Hiroyuki Shima

We derive the effective one-dimensional Schrodinger-Pauli equation for electrons constrained to move on a space curve. The electrons are confined using a double thin-wall quantization procedure with adiabatic separation of fast and slow…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-27 Carmine Ortix

In this paper, we investigate the Schr\"odinger equation in a three-dimensional helically twisted space characterized by a non-trivial torsion parameter. By applying exact separation of variables, we derive the radial equation governing the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Frankbelson dos S. Azevedo , Faizuddin Ahmed , Edilberto O. Silva

Flexoelectricity, polarization induced by strain gradients, is especially pronounced in two-dimensional (2D) materials due to their mechanical flexibility and sensitivity to mechanical deformation. In nanostructures with sub-nm curvature,…

Recent advances in nanotechnology have created tremendous excitement across different disciplines but in order to fully control and manipulate nano-scale objects, we must understand the forces at work at the nano-scale, which can be very…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-24 Kun Ding , Han Hu , T. C. Leung , C. T. Chan

Today graphene nanoribbons and other graphene-based nanostructures can be synthesized with atomic precision. But while investigations have concentrated on straight graphene ribbons of fixed crystal orientation, ribbons with intrinsic…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-01-29 C. G. Rocha , R. Tuovinen , R. van Leeuwen , P. Koskinen

We calculate the spatial entanglement between two electrons trapped in a nanostructure for a broad class of confinement potentials, including single and double quantum dots, and core-shell quantum dot structures. By using a parametrized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 S. Abdullah , J. P. Coe , I. D'Amico

We study the curvature-induced bound states and the coherent transport properties for a particle constrained to move on a truncated cone-like surface. With longitudinal hard wall boundary condition, the probability densities and spectra…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-11 Long Du , Yong-Long Wang , Guo-Hua Liang , Guang-Zhen Kang , Xiao-Jun Liu , Hong-Shi Zong

We introduce a new way of generating the quantum geometric phase by making the initial base state index dependent on space-time curvature. We prove that the resulting Schr\"odinger equation is identical to the trace form of the Einstein…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-20 Jose Alberto Pereira Frugone

The Schrodinger equation for an electron near an azimuthally symmetric curved surface $\Sigma$ in the presence of an arbitrary uniform magnetic field $\mathbf B$ is developed. A thin layer quantization procedure is implemented to bring the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 M. Encinosa

Designing curvature in three-dimensional (3D) magnetic nanostructures enables controlled manipulation of local energy landscapes, allowing for the modification of noncollinear spin textures relevant for next-generation spintronic devices.…

Twisted cylindrical tubes are important model systems for nanostructures, heterostructures, and curved quantum devices. In this work, we investigate the quantum behavior of an electron confined to a twisted cylindrical surface. By first…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-07 G. M. Delgado , J. E. G. Silva
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