<p>We introduce a mesoscopic quantum well whose confinement and chirality emerge solely from the intrinsic twist of a finite helicoidal metric. This purely geometric construction requires no external gates or fields: the metric itself induces both a harmonic radial potential and a twist-driven Zeeman-like term that breaks the <InlineEquation ID="IEq1"> <EquationSource Format="TEX">\(m \leftrightarrow -m\)</EquationSource> </InlineEquation> degeneracy. By imposing hard-wall boundary conditions at <InlineEquation ID="IEq2"> <EquationSource Format="TEX">\(z = \pm L/2\)</EquationSource> </InlineEquation>, we quantize the axial motion and obtain a genuinely zero-dimensional helicoidal quantum dot. An exact analytic solution reveals an energy spectrum with chiral splitting linear in both the twist rate <InlineEquation ID="IEq3"> <EquationSource Format="TEX">\(\Omega \)</EquationSource> </InlineEquation> and the axial quantum number <InlineEquation ID="IEq4"> <EquationSource Format="TEX">\(n_z\)</EquationSource> </InlineEquation>. For realistic InAs nanoroll parameters (<InlineEquation ID="IEq5"> <EquationSource Format="TEX">\(L = 100\)</EquationSource> </InlineEquation>&#xa0;nm, <InlineEquation ID="IEq6"> <EquationSource Format="TEX">\(\Omega = 5\times 10^{6}\,\mathrm {m^{-1}}\)</EquationSource> </InlineEquation>), this geometric effect results in a measurable splitting of <InlineEquation ID="IEq7"> <EquationSource Format="TEX">\(2\hbar \omega \simeq 1.040\)</EquationSource> </InlineEquation>&#xa0;meV. We propose three viable experimental platforms, ultracold atoms in optical traps, femtosecond-written photonic waveguides, and strain-engineered semiconductor nanorolls, where this twist-induced phenomenon should be accessible with current technology.</p>

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Geometry-induced chiral currents in a mesoscopic helicoidal quantum well

  • Edilberto O. Silva

摘要

We introduce a mesoscopic quantum well whose confinement and chirality emerge solely from the intrinsic twist of a finite helicoidal metric. This purely geometric construction requires no external gates or fields: the metric itself induces both a harmonic radial potential and a twist-driven Zeeman-like term that breaks the \(m \leftrightarrow -m\) degeneracy. By imposing hard-wall boundary conditions at \(z = \pm L/2\) , we quantize the axial motion and obtain a genuinely zero-dimensional helicoidal quantum dot. An exact analytic solution reveals an energy spectrum with chiral splitting linear in both the twist rate \(\Omega \) and the axial quantum number \(n_z\) . For realistic InAs nanoroll parameters ( \(L = 100\)  nm, \(\Omega = 5\times 10^{6}\,\mathrm {m^{-1}}\) ), this geometric effect results in a measurable splitting of \(2\hbar \omega \simeq 1.040\)  meV. We propose three viable experimental platforms, ultracold atoms in optical traps, femtosecond-written photonic waveguides, and strain-engineered semiconductor nanorolls, where this twist-induced phenomenon should be accessible with current technology.