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Harmonic oscillator in an elastic medium with a spiral dislocation

Quantum Physics 2018-01-17 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

We investigate the behaviour of a two-dimensional harmonic oscillator in an elastic medium that possesses a spiral dislocation (an edge dislocation). We show that the Schr\"odinger equation for harmonic oscillator in the presence of a spiral dislocation can be solved analytically. Further, we discuss the effects of this topological defect on the confinement to a hard-wall confining potential. In both cases, we analyse if the effects of the topology of the spiral dislocation gives rise to an Aharonov-Bohm-type effect for bound states.

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@article{arxiv.1801.05404,
  title  = {Harmonic oscillator in an elastic medium with a spiral dislocation},
  author = {A. V. D. M. Maia and K. Bakke},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.05404},
  year   = {2018}
}
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