Landau level

English

Etymology

Named after the Soviet physicist Lev Landau.

Noun

Landau level (plural Landau levels)

  1. (physics) Any of the discrete energy values that represent the only cyclotron orbits that a charged particle can occupy in a magnetic field, as a result of Landau quantization.
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