Infinite degeneracy of Landau levels from the Euclidean symmetry with central extension revisited

DOI10.1088/1361-6404/ABDF35MaRDI QIDQ6163499zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Rajan Murgan

Publication date 9 June 2023

Published in European Journal of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.06091

zbMATH Keywords

Lie groupsquantum symmetriesLandau system

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Estimates of eigenvalues in context of PDEs (35P15) Electro- and magnetostatics (78A30) Electromagnetic theory (general) (78A25) Motion of charged particles (78A35) Casimir effect in quantum field theory (81T55) Particle exchange symmetries in quantum theory (general) (81V72) Complex manifolds as subdomains of Euclidean space (32Q35)

Abstract: The planar Landau system which describes the quantum mechanical motion of a charged particle in a plane with a uniform magnetic field perpendicular to the plane, is explored within pedagogical settings aimed at the beginning graduate level. The system is known to possess the Euclidean symmetry in two dimensions with central extension $$. In this paper, we revisit the well-known energy eigenvalues of the system, known as the Landau levels, by exploiting the related $$ symmetry algebra. Specifically, we utilize the Casimir operator and the commutation relations of the generators of the $$ group. More importantly, an algebraic formalism on this topic based on Schwinger's oscillator model of angular momentum is also presented. The dimensions of irreducible representations of the $$ group and their implications on the degeneracy of Landau levels is discussed.

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• QUANTUM THEORY OF LANDAU AND PEIERLS ELECTRONS FROM THE CENTRAL EXTENSIONS OF THEIR SYMMETRY GROUPS
• Landau-level ground-state degeneracy and its relevance for a general quantization procedure

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