Electronic measurements of entropy in meso- and nanoscale systems

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العنوان: Electronic measurements of entropy in meso- and nanoscale systems
المؤلفون: Pyurbeeva, Eugenia, Mol, Jan A., Gehring, Pascal
سنة النشر: 2022
المجموعة: Condensed Matter
مصطلحات موضوعية: Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
الوصف: Entropy is one of the most fundamental quantities in physics. For systems with few degrees of freedom, the value of entropy provides a powerful insight into its microscopic dynamics, such as the number, degeneracy and relative energies of electronic states, the value of spin, degree of localisation and entanglement, and the emergence of exotic states such as non-Abelian anyons. As the size of a system decreases, the conventional methods for measuring entropy, based on heat capacity, quickly become infeasible due to the requirement of increasingly accurate measurements of heat. Several methods to directly measure entropy of mesoscopic quantum systems have recently been developed. These methods use electronic measurements of charge, conductance and thermocurrent, rather than heat, and have been successfully applied to a wide range of systems, from quantum dots and molecules, to quantum Hall states and twisted bilayer graphene. In this Review, we provide an overview of electronic direct entropy measurement methods, discuss their theoretical background, compare their ranges of applicability and look into the directions for their future extensions and applications.
Comment: 13 pages, 3 figures
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1063/5.0101784
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2206.05793
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2206.05793
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv