Landau quantization for a neutral particle in the presence of topological defects

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作者
Bakke, K. [1 ]
Ribeiro, L. R. [1 ]
Furtado, C. [1 ]
Nascimento, J. R. [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Fed Paraiba, Dept Fis, BR-58051970 Joao Pessoa, Paraiba, Brazil
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 2009年 / 79卷 / 02期
关键词
QUANTUM SCATTERING; PHASE; STRINGS; MOMENT;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevD.79.024008
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
In this paper we study the Landau levels in the nonrelativistic dynamics of a neutral particle which possesses a permanent magnetic dipole moment interacting with an external electric field in the curved space-time background with the presence or absence of a torsion field. The eigenfunction and eigenvalues of the Hamiltonian are obtained. We show that the presence of the topological defect breaks the infinite degeneracy of the Landau levels arising in this system. We also apply a duality transformation to discuss this same quantization for a dynamics of a neutral particle with a permanent electric dipole moment.
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