Revisiting the compatibility problem between the gauge principle and the observability of the canonical orbital angular momentum in the Landau problem

DOI10.1016/j.aop.2021.168647zbMath1482.81042arXiv2104.10885OpenAlexW3205390986MaRDI QIDQ2058660

Masashi Wakamatsu, Liping Zou, Yoshio Kitadono, Peng-Ming Zhang

Publication date: 9 December 2021

Published in: Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.10885

zbMATH Keywords

Landau problemnucleon spin decompositioncanonical orbital angular momentaelectron helical beamgauge principle and observability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Permutations, words, matrices (05A05) Nuclear physics (81V35) General topics in linear spectral theory for PDEs (35P05) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R25) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Differential geometric methods, including holonomy, Berry and Hannay phases, Aharonov-Bohm effect, etc. in quantum theory (81Q70)

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