THE SELF-ENERGY OF A CHARGED PARTICLE IN THE PRESENCE OF A TOPOLOGICAL DEFECT DISTRIBUTION

Abstract

In this work, we study a charged particle in the presence of both a continuous distribution of disclinations and a continuous distribution of edge dislocations in the framework of the geometrical theory of defects. We obtain the self-energy for a single charge both in the internal and external regions of either distribution. For both distributions, the result in the outside region is the self-energy that a single charge experiments in the presence of a single defect.