Isotropic Landau levels of Dirac fermions in high dimensions

Yi Li, Kenneth Intriligator, Yue Yu, and Congjun Wu
Phys. Rev. B 85, 085132 – Published 29 February 2012

Abstract

We generalize the Landau levels of two-dimensional Dirac fermions to three dimensions and above with the full rotational symmetry. Similarly to the two-dimensional case, there exists a branch of zero energy Landau levels of fractional fermion modes for the massless Dirac fermions. The spectra of other Landau levels distribute symmetrically with respect to the zero energy scaling with the square root of the Landau-level indices. This mechanism is a nonminimal coupling of Dirac fermions to the background fields. This high dimensional relativistic Landau-level problem is a square-root problem of its previous studied nonrelativistic version investigated in Li and Wu [arXiv:1103.5422 (2011)].

  • Received 7 October 2011

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.85.085132

©2012 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Yi Li1, Kenneth Intriligator1, Yue Yu2, and Congjun Wu1,3

  • 1Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, California 92093, USA
  • 2Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 2735, Beijing 100190, China
  • 3Center for Quantum Information, IIIS, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

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Vol. 85, Iss. 8 — 15 February 2012

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