Assume ; reversing the sign only exchanges the spin labels. Since , the Pauli term shifts the spinless energies by . Thus
After collecting equal energies, the spin splitting of Landau levels is
The level contains only and has degeneracy . Every level contains and and has degeneracy .
For noninteracting electrons, the Pauli exclusion principle fills these states from the bottom. If , every electron fits in the zero-energy level and
For , write
Then the first positive levels are full and states in level are occupied. The ground-state energy is
Equivalently, on
The graph is continuous and piecewise linear: it is flat up to , then has slopes , with kinks at