English Explanatory Dictionary

Landau level

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.

Word forms

Landau level Landau levels

Etymology

Named after the Soviet physicist Lev Landau.

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