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Past exam of the condensed matter physics major option course of the University of Oxford 2018 6 c Solution by
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As magnetic field grows from zero, a clean two-dimensional electron gas first has an ordinary finite longitudinal resistivity, then develops Shubnikov–de Haas oscillations as broadened Landau levels pass the chemical potential. Thermal and disorder broadening obscure the low-field oscillations; their visibility grows when the level spacing exceeds those broadening scales. In a well-developed integer quantum Hall regime, has minima close to zero on Hall plateaux and maxima during transitions between them, when extended states cross the chemical potential. Detailed peak heights and envelopes depend on disorder and scattering and are not fixed by quantization alone.
At fixed density the nominal filling is , so level-filling features are approximately periodic in , with period for resolved spin levels or for an unresolved spin pair. Increasing lowers the filling; spin splitting can create additional odd-index features. The original schematic below shows these relations without pretending to reconstruct the missing data.
TODO — missing source graph: the actual – positions and integer plateau labels require or surviving plateau fields from part (b). Neither is provided independently. Thus a uniquely labelled field-axis sketch for this sample cannot be completed. The following DOS diagram distinguishes extended centres and localized tails generically; its chemical-potential markers are illustrative and do not stand for the requested 8 T or 10 T assignments.
Generic longitudinal oscillations and broadened Landau levels without inventing the missing Hall data
. Original qualitative illustration. The horizontal filling scale is dimensionless and is not a reconstruction of the missing 0–12 T graph. Chemical-potential positions in the DOS panel illustrate two regimes, with no assignment to 8 T or 10 T. Details. New to topics? Read the docs here!
