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We investigate a system of equally charged Coulomb-interacting particles confined to a toroidal helix in the presence of an external electric field. Due to the confinement, the particles experience an effective interaction that oscillates…

Classical Physics · Physics 2020-08-05 Ansgar Siemens , Peter Schmelcher

In this work it is studied the Schr\"odinger equation for a non-relativistic particle restricted to move on a surface $S$ in a three-dimensional Minkowskian medium $\mathbb{R}_1^3$, i.e., the space $\mathbb{R}^3$ equipped with the metric…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-02-15 Renato Teixeira , Eduardo S. G. Leandro , Luiz C. B. da Silva , Fernando Moraes

We investigate the effect of curvature on the behaviour of a quantum particle bound to move on a surface. For the Gaussian bump we derive and discuss the quantum potential which results in the appearance of a bound state for particles with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Victor Atanasov , Rossen Dandoloff

Most physical systems, whether classical or quantum mechanical, exhibit spherical symmetry. Angular momentum, denoted as $\ell$, is a conserved quantity that appears in the centrifugal potential when a particle moves under the influence of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-05 Taha Koohrokhi , Abdolmajid Izadpanah , Mitra Gerayloo

In this work, we analyze the noncommutative three-dimensional Coulomb potential problem. For this purpose, we used the Kustaanheimo-Stiefel mapping to write the Schr\"odinger equation for Coulomb potential in a solvable way. Then, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-23 Beatriz Wang , Emanuel Brenag , Ronni Amorim , Vinicius Rispoli , Sergio Ulhoa

We provide the quantum mechanics of many particles moving in twisted N-enlarged Newton-Hooke space-time. In particular, we consider the example of such noncommutative system - the set of M particles moving in Coulomb field of external…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Marcin Daszkiewicz

The quantum oscillator and Kepler-Coulomb problems in $d$-dimensional spaces with constant curvature are analyzed from several viewpoints. In a deformed supersymmetric framework, the corresponding nonlinear potentials are shown to exhibit a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-11-03 C. Quesne

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

Geometric confinement is known to modify single-particle dynamics through effective potentials, yet its imprint on the interacting quantum vacuum remains largely unexplored. In this work, we investigate the Maxwell--Klein--Gordon system…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-09 Li Wang , Jun Wang , Yong-Long Wang

Context: Due to advances in synthesizing lower dimensional materials there is the challenge of finding the wave equation that effectively describes quantum particles moving on 1D and 2D domains. Jensen and Koppe and Da Costa independently…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-06-10 Eduardo V. S. Anjos , Antonio C. Pavão , Luiz C. B. da Silva , Cristiano C. Bastos

This paper provides an examination of how are prediction of standard quantum mechanic (QM) affected by introducing a noncommutative (NC) structure into the configuration space of the considered system (electron in the Coulomb potential in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-12-10 Veronika Gáliková , Samuel Kováčik , Peter Prešnajder

The geometric potential in quantum mechanics has been attracted attention recently, providing a formalism to investigate the influence of curvature in the context of low-dimensional systems. In this paper, we study the consequences of a…

We study the quantum dynamics of a particle confined in a twisted tube with a linearly varying cross section. By relating a general linear transformation matrix to the system's Hamiltonian, we use an extended thin-layer method to derive an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Guo-Hua Liang , Ai-Guo Mei , Men-Yun Lai , Shu-Sheng Xu

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

Thermodynamic properties of confined systems depend on sizes of the confinement domain due to quantum nature of particles. Here we show that shape also enters as a control parameter on thermodynamic state functions. By considering specially…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-29 Alhun Aydin , Altug Sisman

We study the quantum transport through entropic barriers induced by hardwall constrictions of hyperboloidal shape in two and three spatial dimensions. Using the separability of the Schrodinger equation and the classical equations of motion…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-13 R. Hales , H. Waalkens

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…

We study the quantum dynamics of cold atoms initially confined in a Helical Optical Tube (HOT) and subsequently released into free space. This helicoidal potential, engineered via structured light fields with orbital angular momentum,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-20 Amine Jaouadi , Andreas Lyras , Vasileios E. Lembessis

A classical particle under spatial constraints is strictly confined to live on a specific space manifold or path, but this assumption is incompatible with the zero-point fluctuations of a quantum particle. One way to describe quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 Tim Bergmann , Benjamin Schwager , Jamal Berakdar

The Schr\"odinger-like equation written in terms of the displacement operator is solved analytically for a inverse square plus Coulomb-like potential. Starting from the new Hamiltonian, the effects of the spatially dependent mass on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-30 Altug Arda , Ramazan Sever