Elastic field causing noncommutativity
We study how a uniform torsion background —modeling a continuous density of screw dislocations— induces effective spatial noncommutativity and reshapes the energy spectrum of a free quantum particle. Within the geometric theory of defects, the metric yields a first-order (magnetic-like) coupling in the transverse dynamics, equivalent to an effective magnetic field $B_{\mathrm {eff}}\propto p_{z}\,\Omega $ , where Ω encodes the torsion strength. In the strong-coupling (Landau) regime, the planar coordinates obey $[x,y]\neq0$ and the spectrum organizes into Landau-like levels with a slight electric-field–driven tilt and a uniform shift. Thus, increasing Ω drives the system continuously toward the familiar Landau problem in flat space, with torsion setting the noncommutativity scale and controlling the approach to the Landau limit.
Authors
- A. L. Silva Netto
- A. M. de M. Carvalho
- G. Q. Garcia
- C. Furtado
Institutions
- Universidade Estadual da Paraíba (BR)
- Universidade Federal da Paraíba (BR)
- Universidade Federal do Vale do São Francisco (BR)
- Universidade Federal de Alagoas (BR)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology)
- Published
- 2026-04-17
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/ae59b0/pdf
- Primary Topic
- Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00