Landau quantization
Cuantización de Landau
- Date
- 1930 · confidence high
- Place
- Zurich, Switzerland
- Credited to
- Lev Landau
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
Quantization into discrete energy levels —Landau levels— of the cyclotron orbits of charged particles in a uniform magnetic field, developed by Soviet physicist Lev Landau.
What it led to
- Explanation of Landau diamagnetism in metals
- Theoretical basis for the quantum Hall effect
- A central tool in condensed-matter physics