Torsion effects on condensed matter: like a magnetic field but not so much

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• 作者：Anderson A. Lima ; Cleverson Filgueiras ; Fernando Moraes
• 关键词：Solid State and Materials
• 刊名：The European Physical Journal B
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：90
• 期：2
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• 刊物类别：Physics and Astronomy
• 刊物主题：Condensed Matter Physics; Physics, general; Complex Systems; Fluid- and Aerodynamics; Solid State Physics;
• 出版者：Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• ISSN：1434-6036
• 卷排序：90

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In this work, we study the effects of torsion due to a uniform distribution of topological defects (screw dislocations) on free spin/carrier dynamics in elastic solids. When a particle moves in such a medium, the effect of the torsion associated to the defect distribution is analogous to that of an applied magnetic field but with subtle differences. Analogue Landau levels are present in this system but they cannot be confined to two dimensions. In the case of spinless carriers, zero modes, which do not appear in the magnetic Landau levels, show up for quantized values of the linear momentum projected on the defects axis. Particles with spin are subjected to a Zeeman-like coupling between spin and torsion, which is insensitive to charge. This suggests the possibility of spin resonance experiments without a magnetic field for charged carriers or quasiparticles without electrical charge, like triplet excitons, for instance.