Specific Heat of a Fractional Quantum Hall System

Details Specific Heat of a Fractional Quantum Hall System Specific Heat of a Fractional Quantum Hall System

2006-07-06

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0607167v3

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

4 pages, 4 figures (version is 1. resubmission: Added a paragraph to include the problems which arise by the weak temperature

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.76.153311

Using a time-resolved phonon absorption technique, we have measured the specific heat of a two-dimensional electron system in the fractional quantum Hall effect regime. For filling factors $\nu = 5/3, 4/3, 2/3, 3/5, 4/7, 2/5$ and 1/3 the specific heat displays a strong exponential temperature dependence in agreement with excitations across a quasi-particle gap. At filling factor $\nu = 1/2$ we were able to measure the specific heat of a composite fermion system for the first time. The observed linear temperature dependence on temperature down to $T = 0.14$ K agrees well with early predictions for a Fermi liquid of composite fermions.

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