Phy5645/Particle in Uniform Magnetic Field

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(a) In the symmetric gauge, and

(b) The Hamiltonian for the system is

If we label the first two terms as , and the last one as , then we may write the Hamiltonian as Using the identity,

we may rewrite as

If we now define the operators,

and

this becomes

where This is just the Hamiltonian for a harmonic oscillator. The contribution to the energy from this term is therefore

The remaining part of the Hamiltonian, is just that of a free particle in one dimension, and thus its contribution to the energy is just The total energy is then just

which is just the result that we obtained working in the Landau gauge, as expected.

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