Solution

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Take and use the Landau gauge . With zero -momentum, the Hamiltonian becomes
For a state , this is a quantum harmonic oscillator in , centred at
with cyclotron frequency
The Landau levels are therefore
Periodicity in quantizes . Requiring the corresponding oscillator centre to lie in an interval of length leaves
allowed centres for each . This is the degeneracy of a Landau level, equal to the magnetic flux through the rectangle divided by the magnetic flux quantum . Consistent magnetic periodic boundary conditions make an integer.

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