Excitation of surface dipole and solenoidal modes on toroidal structures

The time dependent Schrodinger equation inclusive of curvature effects is developed for a spinless electron constrained to motion on a toroidal surface and subjected to circularly polarized and linearly polarized waves in the microwave regime. A basis set expansion is used to determine the character of the surface currents as the system is driven at a particular resonance frequency. Surface current densities and magnetic moments corresponding to those currents are calculated. It is shown that the currents can yield magnetic moments large not only along the toroidal symmetry axis, but along directions tangential and normal to the toroidal surface as well.