Paper 4, Section II,
(a) For a particle of charge moving in an electromagnetic field with vector potential and scalar potential , write down the classical Hamiltonian and the equations of motion.
(b) Consider the vector and scalar potentials
(i) Solve the equations of motion. Define and compute the cyclotron frequency .
(ii) Write down the quantum Hamiltonian of the system in terms of the angular momentum operator
Show that the states
for any function , are energy eigenstates and compute their energy. Define Landau levels and discuss this result in relation to them.
(iii) Show that for , the wavefunctions in ( ) are eigenstates of angular momentum and compute the corresponding eigenvalue. These wavefunctions peak in a ring around the origin. Estimate its radius. Using these two facts or otherwise, estimate the degeneracy of Landau levels.