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Past exam of the physics of Nanoelectronic Systems course of the University of Cambridge 2013 Paper 1 1 a Solution by
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Use , along , and for the electron's confinement potential energy. The spin-resolved Landau level branches in the smooth-edge approximation areThe spin labels denote upper and lower energies; the sign of a material's effective factor is not inferred from the stated positive splitting. In units of , the four occupied bulk energies are . A chemical potential in therefore gives filling factor four. The branches rise at both confining edges and cross the common Fermi energy once at each edge. Each crossing is one spin-resolved quantum Hall edge state; there are four on either side. The two spin branches within an orbital level are separated by , while the intervening gap to the next orbital pair is .
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