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Entropy of strongly correlated electrons in a partially filled Landau level

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2025-03-24 v1 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We use high-resolution chemical potential measurements to extract the entropy of monolayer and bilayer graphene in the quantum Hall regime via the Maxwell relation dμdTN=dSdNT\left.\frac{d\mu}{dT}\right|_N = -\left.\frac{dS}{dN}\right|_T. Measuring the entropy from T=300T=300K down to T=200T=200mK, we identify the sequential emergence of quantum Hall ferromagnetism, fractional quantum Hall states (FQH), and various charge orders by comparing the measured entropy in different temperature regimes with theoretical models. At the lowest temperature of T200T \approx 200mK we perform a detailed study of the entropy near even-denominator fractional quantum Hall states in bilayer graphene, and comment on the possible topological origin of the observed excess entropy.

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@article{arxiv.2503.16738,
  title  = {Entropy of strongly correlated electrons in a partially filled Landau level},
  author = {Alexandre Assouline and Taige Wang and Heun Mo Yoo and Ruihua Fan and Fangyuan Yang and Ruining Zhang and Takashi Taniguchi and Kenji Watanabe and Michael P. Zaletel and Andrea F. Young},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.16738},
  year   = {2025}
}