Hamiltonian for a particle in a magnetic field on a curved surface in orthogonal curvilinear coordinates

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2016-08-19

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Shikakhwa, M. S.
Chair, N.

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The Schrodinger Hamiltonian of a spin-less particle as well as the Pauli Hamiltonian with spin-orbit coupling included of a spin one-half particle in electromagnetic fields that are confined to a curved surface embedded in a three-dimensional space spanned by a general Orthogonal Curvilinear Coordinate are constructed. A new approach, based on the physical argument that upon squeezing the particle to the surface by a potential, then it is the physical gauge-covariant kinematical momentum operator (velocity operator) transverse to the surface that should be dropped from the Hamiltonian(s). In both cases, the resulting Hermitian gauge-invariant Hamiltonian on the surface is free from any reference to the component of the vector potential transverse to the surface, and the approach is completely gauge-independent. In particular, for the Pauli Hamiltonian these results are obtained exactly without any further assumptions or approximations. Explicit covariant plug-and-play formulae for the Schrodinger Hamiltonians on the surfaces of a cylinder, a sphere and a torus are derived.

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Quantum mechanics on curved surfaces, Pauli Hamiltonian on a curved surface, Spin-orbit coupling, Geometric momentum

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/64441

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PHYSICS LETTERS A

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physleta.2016.06.024

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M. S. Shikakhwa and N. Chair, “Hamiltonian for a particle in a magnetic field on a curved surface in orthogonal curvilinear coordinates,” PHYSICS LETTERS A, pp. 2876–2880, 2016, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/64441.