Landau electron in a rotating environment: a general factorization of time evolution

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2012.07.007MaRDI QIDQ714011zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors J. Chee

Publication date 19 October 2012

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1207.6500

zbMATH Keywords

infinite degenerate energy eigenstatesLandau problemmagnetic translation symmetrynon-abelian Berry phasenon-adiabatic effectsrotating magnetic field

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Time-dependent Schrödinger equations and Dirac equations (35Q41) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Differential geometric methods, including holonomy, Berry and Hannay phases, Aharonov-Bohm effect, etc. in quantum theory (81Q70) Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70)

Abstract: For the Landau problem with a rotating magnetic field and a potential in the (changing) direction of the field, we derive a general factorization of the time evolution operator that includes the adiabatic factorization as a special case. We assume that the direction of the magnetic field changes with time in a general way, so the Heisenberg equations of motion cannot be solved by quadrature. Also, the potential is assumed to be of a general form. We use the rotation operator associated with the solid angle Berry phase to transform the problem to a rotating reference frame that follows the direction of the magnetic field. In the rotating reference frame, we derive a natural factorization of the time evolution operator by recognizing the crucial role played by a gauge transformation. The major complexity of the problem arises from the coupling between motion in the direction of the magnetic field and motion perpendicular to the field. In the factorization, this complexity is consolidated into a single operator that approaches the identity operator when the potential confines the particle sufficiently close to a plane perpendicular to the magnetic field. The structure of this operator is clarified by deriving an expression for its generating Hamiltonian. The magnetic translation is the most notable physical consequence in the adiabatic limit. This and the non-adiabatic effects are studied as consequences of the general factorization.

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