Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-short-options-paper-shared-by-prelims-and-parts-a-and-b-of-the-physics-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2012/s7/3/4/solution

For translation in a fixed direction , take and the preceding . The triple-product identity gives . Thus
Choosing the three Cartesian directions gives the three constants
These are magnetic pseudomomentum components, not the three components of kinetic momentum . A direct check is . In the stated gauge, , consistent with the Noether boundary correction.

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