The self-adjoint toroidal dipole operator in nanostructures

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2203.00440v1
• Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2022 02:23:29 GMT
• Title: The self-adjoint toroidal dipole operator in nanostructures
• Authors: Mircea Dolineanu, Amanda Teodora Preda, Dragos-Victor Anghel
• Abstract summary: We analyze a quantum particle in a system with cylindrical symmetry, which is a typical system in which toroidal moments appear. While the toroidal dipole is hermitian, it is not self-adjoint, but in the new set of coordinates the operator $hatT_3$ splits into two components, one of which is physically significant and represents an observable.
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• Abstract: The parity violation in nuclear reactions led to the discovery of the new class of toroidal multipoles. Since then, it was observed that toroidal multipoles are present in the electromagnetic structure of systems at all scales, from elementary particles, to solid state systems and metamaterials. The toroidal dipole ${\bf T}$ (the lowest order multipole) is the most common. In quantum systems, this corresponds to the toroidal dipole operator $\hat{\bf T}$, with the projections $\hat{T}_i$ ($i=1,2,3$) on the coordinate axes. Here we analyze a quantum particle in a system with cylindrical symmetry, which is a typical system in which toroidal moments appear. We find the expressions for the Hamiltonian, momenta, and toroidal dipole operators in adequate curvilinear coordinates, which allow us to find analytical expressions for the eigenfunctions of the momentum operators. While the toroidal dipole is hermitian, it is not self-adjoint, but in the new set of coordinates the operator $\hat{T}_3$ splits into two components, one of which is (only) hermitian, whereas the other one is self-adjoint. The self-adjoint component is the one that is physically significant and represents an observable. Furthermore, we numerically diagonalize the Hamiltonian and the toroidal dipole operator and find their eigenfunctions and eigenvalues. We write the partition function and calculate the thermodynamic quantities for a system of ideal particles on a torus. Besides proving that the toroidal dipole is self-adjoint and therefore an observable (a finding of fundamental relevance) such systems open up the possibility of making metamaterials that exploit the quantization and the quantum properties of the toroidal dipoles.

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