<i>κ</i>-Deformed quantum and classical mechanics for a system with position-dependent effective mass

Abstract

We present the quantum and classical mechanics formalisms for a particle with a position-dependent mass in the context of a deformed algebraic structure (named κ-algebra), motivated by the Kappa-statistics. From this structure, we obtain deformed versions of the position and momentum operators, which allow us to define a point canonical transformation that maps a particle with a constant mass in a deformed space into a particle with a position-dependent mass in the standard space. We illustrate the formalism with a particle confined in an infinite potential well and the Mathews–Lakshmanan oscillator, exhibiting uncertainty relations depending on the deformation.