https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/i2019-12556-7
Regular Article
Quantum aspects of a quantum particle in a cylindrical wire in the presence of a screw dislocation
Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Caixa Postal 5008, 58051-900, João Pessoa, PB, Brazil
* e-mail: kbakke@fisica.ufpb.br
Received:
26
November
2018
Accepted:
4
February
2019
Published online:
1
April
2019
We consider an elastic medium with the distortion of a vertical line into a vertical spiral and investigate the influence of this topological defect on a spinless quantum particle confined to a cylindrical wire. In addition, we analyse the effects of rotation on this system. We show that there exists an analogue of the Aharonov-Bohm effect for bound states in both rotating and nonrotating reference frames. Furthermore, we show that the topology of the defect yields a term that plays the role of an effective radius in the spectrum of energy in both reference frames. In particular, in the rotating reference frame, a coupling between torsion and the angular velocity arises.
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