Gauge invariant energy spectra in 2-dimensional noncommutative quantum mechanics

Abstract: In this paper we consider an electron moving on a two dimensional noncommutative plane immersed in a constant magnetic field under the influence of an anisotropic harmonic potential. We work out the gauge invariant energy spectra of this system using a consistent gauge prescription proposed in \cite{nctori,gauge-wigfunc}. We also show subsequently that straightforward generalization of the Landau problem in the noncommutative setting using minimal coupling prescription as is done naively on many occasions in the literature violates gauge invariance of the energy spectra.