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Kohn condition and exotic Newton-Hooke symmetry in the non-commutative Landau problem

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-03 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

NN "exotic" [alias non-commutative] particles with masses mam_a, charges eae_a and non-commutative parameters θa\theta_a, moving in a uniform magnetic field BB, separate into center-of-mass and internal motions if Kohn's condition ea/ma=\conste_a/m_a=\const is supplemented with eaθa=\const.e_a\theta_a=\const. Then the center-of-mass behaves as a single exotic particle carrying the total mass and charge of the system, MM and ee, and a suitably defined non-commutative parameter Θ\Theta. For vanishing electric field off the critical case eΘB1e\Theta B\neq1, the particles perform the usual cyclotronic motion with modified but equal frequency. The system is symmetric under suitable time-dependent translations which span a (4+2)- parameter centrally extended subgroup of the "exotic" [i.e., two-parameter centrally extended] Newton-Hooke group. In the critical case B=Bc=(eΘ)1B=B_c=(e\Theta)^{-1} the system is frozen into a static "crystal" configuration. Adding a constant electric field, all particles perform, collectively, a cyclotronic motion combined with a drift perpendicular to the electric field when eΘB1e\Theta B\neq1. For B=BcB=B_c the cyclotronic motion is eliminated and all particles move, collectively, following the Hall law. Our time-dependent symmetries are reduced to the (2+1)-parameter Heisenberg group of centrally-extended translations.

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@article{arxiv.1111.1595,
  title  = {Kohn condition and exotic Newton-Hooke symmetry in the non-commutative Landau problem},
  author = {P-M. Zhang and P. A. Horvathy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1111.1595},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

12 pages, no figures. A minor error and some typos corrected, one reference added