Surface effects on the diamagnetic susceptibility and other properties of a low temperature electron gas

• Main Authors: Wang, Lipo., O'Connell, R. F.
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/99922; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/8127
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

A general formulation is developed for determining the free energy of a Fermi gas contained in an arbitrary smooth external potential barrier and in a weak magnetic field, in the low-temperature limit. The Wigner phase-space formalism of quantum mechanics is used as a calculational tool. Explicit fo...