Charge oscillations in a simple model of interacting magnetic orbits

Abstract

Exact eigenstates for a set of two or more interacting electronic orbits in a magnetic field are studied for a class of factorized Hamiltonians with coupled Fermi surfaces. We study the condition for the existence of annihilation-creation operators that allows for the construction of eigenstates. For the case of two interacting cyclotronic orbits, we consider the oscillations of the overlap function and the transfer of charge density between the orbits as function of the inverse field. The expressions of the Fourier frequencies are given in the semiclassical regime and they depend on the geometrical structure of the electronic bands. A generalization of this construction is provided for a chain of several interacting orbits with exact eigenfunctions.