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Robert Israel
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Electrostatic potential is a harmonic function on any region without charges. It has no local minimum, in fact the value at the origin is the average of the potential over a sphere centred at the origin within your "cage". Therefore it is impossible to do what you want: there will always be a path the electron can take to escape to infinity.

Robert Israel
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