Solution

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Using the magnitude of the classical slope,
The Landau filling factor at is
Under the convention that the “last Landau level” means the last resolved spin branch, its degeneracy per area is . Setting gives
Above this threshold all carriers fit into that lowest resolved branch, which is partially filled when .
There is a spin convention to state explicitly: if “Landau level” instead means one orbital level with unresolved twofold spin degeneracy, its capacity is , and all carriers first fit into orbital index at , where . The slope alone determines and , but does not specify the spin splitting.

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