Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-condensed-matter-physics-major-option-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2018/6/c/ii/solution

At ,
The cyclotron spacing is , smaller than at 10 T, and each resolved level's degeneracy per area is also reduced by . Thus the same carrier density occupies more levels. This ratio is determined without the missing graph, but it does not specify whether the chemical potential lies in a localized tail or an extended-state centre.
TODO — missing density/plateau assignment: a numerical index and chemical-potential marker at 8 T require the unavailable density information. For example the first illustrative density in part (i) gives , while instead gives . These produce different schematic placements even though both satisfy every surviving sample parameter. Unresolved spin degeneracy and disorder add further qualifications; no unique 8 T label should be invented.

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