Solution

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In the isotropic parabolic-band approximation implied by the single supplied curvature, the hole mass from a valence-band maximum is
The hole has charge , so its cyclotron angular frequency is
If “frequency” means cycles per second, . The curvature unit is , so has mass units. The external constants used are , and .[ref] A genuinely anisotropic band would require the cyclotron mass for the orbit plane, not a single arbitrary directional curvature.

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