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Journal of Physics A Mathematical and General

More on effective potentials of quantum strip waveguides

Iain John Clark

Published Feb 27, 1998• 10 citations
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Abstract

We investigate further the dynamics of a particle constrained to move on a curved quantum strip waveguide embedded in 3-space, subject to Dirichlet boundary conditions. An earlier calculation of the dependence of the effective potential upon torsion and twisting is modified to yield a corrected expression, by use of the `straightening-out' transformation.

DOI
10.1088/0305-4470/31/8/020

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