Landau Level Ground--State Degeneracy, and Its Relevance for a General Quantization Procedure

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1993-12-03

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9312006v1

Phys.Rev. A48 (1993) 2538-2548

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

32, Phys. Rev. A, 48, 2538

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.48.2538

The quantum dynamics of a two-dimensional charged spin $1/2$ particle is studied for general, symmetry--free curved surfaces and general, nonuniform magnetic fields that are, when different from zero, orthogonal to the defining two surface. Although higher Landau levels generally lose their degeneracy under such general conditions, the lowest Landau level, the ground state, remains degenerate. Previous discussions of this problem have had less generality and/or used supersymmetry, or else have appealed to very general mathematical theorems from differential geometry. In contrast our discussion relies on simple and standard quantum mechanical concepts. The mathematical similarity of the physical problem at hand and that of a phase-space path integral quantization scheme of a general classical system is emphasized. Adopting this analogy in the general case leads to a general quantization procedure that is invariant under general coordinate transformations-- completely unlike any of the conventional quantization prescriptions -- and therefore generalizes the concept of quantization to new and hitherto inaccesible situations. In a complementary fashion , the so-obtained picture of general quantization helps to derive useful semiclassical formulas for the Hall current in the case of a filling factor equal to one for a general surface and magnetic field.

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