Quantum motion of a point particle in the presence of the Aharonov--Bohm potential in curved space

TL;DR

This paper investigates the quantum behavior of a spinless charged particle influenced by the Aharonov--Bohm potential on a curved conical surface, incorporating geometric potential effects and self-adjoint extension methods to analyze bound states.

Contribution

It introduces a detailed analysis of quantum dynamics on conical surfaces with Aharonov--Bohm potential, including the effects of geometric potential and singularity treatment.

Findings

Derived conditions for circular particle paths.

Obtained explicit bound state energies and wave functions.

Applied self-adjoint extension to handle singular geometric potential.

Abstract

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 geometry of this line element establishes that the motion of the particle can occur on the surface of a cone or an anti--cone. As a consequence of the nontrivial topology of the cone and also because of two--dimensional confinement, the geometric potential should be taken into account. At first, we establish the conditions for the particle describing a circular path in such a context. Because of the presence of the geometric potential, which contains a singular term, we use the self--adjoint extension method in order to describe the dynamics in all space including the singularity. Expressions are obtained for the bound state energies and wave functions.