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HAIT Journal of Science and Engineering Volume 1, Issue 3, pp. 508-516 © 2004 Holon Academic Institute of Technology | ||||||
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Critical behavior of the Pauli spin susceptibility in a strongly correlated 2D electron liquid
Alexander A. Shashkin1,2, Svetlana Anissimova1, Mohammed R. Sakr1,3
Sergey V. Kravchenko1,*, Valeri T. Dolgopolov2, and Teun M. Klapwijk4
1Physics Department, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA | 2Institute of Solid State Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Chernogolovka, Moscow region 142432, Russia 3Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA 4Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology, 2628 CJ Delft, The Netherlands *Corresponding author: s.kravchenko@neu.edu Received 21 October 2004, accepted 23 November 2004
| Thermodynamic measurements reveal that the Pauli spin susceptibility in a strongly correlated low-disordered two-dimensional electron system in silicon becomes enhanced by almost an order of magnitude at low electron densities and has a critical behavior close to the metal-insulator transition point. This provides thermodynamic evidence for the existence of a phase transition.
___________________ | Presented at International Workshop Correlated Electrons at High Magnetic Fields. Ein-Gedi/Holon, Israel, 19-23 December 2004 |