On a helicoidal surface with a magnetic field, the effective potential for two charged particles can be tuned from harmonic to quartic confinement by varying twist density and field strength.
Phase-space structure and nonlinear dynamics of a charged particle on a helicoidal manifold under a magnetic field
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We analyze the classical dynamics of a charged particle constrained to a helicoidally embedded Riemannian manifold in $\mathbb{R}^3$ under a uniform magnetic field in the ambient space. The induced metric $ds^2=du^2+(1+w^2u^2)dv^2$ and the pulled-back symmetric gauge yield an exact reduction to a one-dimensional nonlinear Hamiltonian system. The resulting effective potential couples geometry and magnetic field, producing transitions between bounded and unbounded motion and a reorganization of phase-space topology. In the asymptotic regime, the dynamics reduces to a harmonic oscillator with $\omega_{\mathrm{eff}}=\omega_c/2$ and $\ell=\sqrt{2}\,\ell_\mathcal{B}$. The system admits a Landau-type semiclassical spectrum and exhibits a geometry--magnetic control parameter $\Lambda=q\mathcal{B}+\hbar k_v w$ governing a chirality transition.
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Curvature as a control field in helicoidal two-body systems
On a helicoidal surface with a magnetic field, the effective potential for two charged particles can be tuned from harmonic to quartic confinement by varying twist density and field strength.