Landau levels in the presence of dilute short-range scatterers

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Abstract
We consider an electron in a magnetic field interacting with low density of short-range scatterers in two dimensions and develop a perturbation theory in the scatterer range. When the number of flux quanta per scatterer φ is ≫1, each Landau band splits into narrow and close (but clearly distinct) subbands, accommodating one or two states per scatterer each. In a model in which there is no electron-electron interaction, the subbands can yield large oscillations in the density of states at the Fermi level, and consequently in the heat capacity, magnetic susceptibility, and, perhaps, transport properties, when φ changes by 1 or 2.