Landau level

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Named after the Soviet physicist Lev Landau.

Noun[edit]

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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