Type: Article
Publication Date: 2011-03-18
Citations: 49
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.83.115129
It is well established that the Hilbert space for charged particles in a plane subject to a uniform magnetic field can be described by two mutually commuting ladder algebras. We propose a similar formalism for Landau level quantization on a sphere involving two mutually commuting SU(2) algebras.