Strongly correlated two-dimensional plasma explored from entropy measurements

A. Y. Kuntsevich (), Y. V. Tupikov, V. M. Pudalov and I. S. Burmistrov
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A. Y. Kuntsevich: Lebedev Physical Institute of the RAS
Y. V. Tupikov: Pennsylvania State University
V. M. Pudalov: Lebedev Physical Institute of the RAS
I. S. Burmistrov: Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

Nature Communications, 2015, vol. 6, issue 1, 1-6

Abstract: Abstract Charged plasma and Fermi liquid are two distinct states of electronic matter intrinsic to dilute two-dimensional electron systems at elevated and low temperatures, respectively. Probing their thermodynamics represents challenge because of lack of an adequate technique. Here, we report a thermodynamic method to measure the entropy per electron in gated structures. Our technique appears to be three orders of magnitude superior in sensitivity to a.c. calorimetry, allowing entropy measurements with only 108 electrons. This enables us to investigate the correlated plasma regime, previously inaccessible experimentally in two-dimensional electron systems in semiconductors. In experiments with clean two-dimensional electron system in silicon-based structures, we traced entropy evolution from the plasma to Fermi liquid regime by varying electron density. We reveal that the correlated plasma regime can be mapped onto the ordinary non-degenerate Fermi gas with an interaction-enhanced temperature-dependent effective mass. Our method opens up new horizons in studies of low-dimensional electron systems.

Date: 2015
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