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

arXiv:1111.1595 · doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2011.11.035

Abstract

"exotic" [alias non-commutative] particles with masses , charges and non-commutative parameters , moving in a uniform magnetic field , separate into center-of-mass and internal motions if Kohn's condition $e_a/m_a=\const$ is supplemented with $e_aθ_a=\const.$ Then the center-of-mass behaves as a single exotic particle carrying the total mass and charge of the system, and , and a suitably defined non-commutative parameter . For vanishing electric field off the critical case , 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 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 . For 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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