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Landau level

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Etymology

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Named after the Soviet physicist Lev Landau.

Noun

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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.