Journal of the Physical Society of Japan
Temperature-Squared Term in the Heat Capacity of a Two-Dimensional Fermi Liquid
節夫 三沢
Abstract
The spin susceptibility of a two-dimensional (2D) Fermi liquid has been recently shown, by Hirashima and Takahashi [J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 67 (1998) 3816], to vary as χ( T )=χ 0 +α T as a function of temperature T , where χ 0 and α are constants. From the analytic form of the free energy which is compatible with this χ and the third law of thermodynamics, we can deduce that the entropy S , and hence the heat capacity, of the system varies as T 2 . This T 2 -term of S is also compatible with the theoretical prediction for the self-energy part of the 2D quasiparticles.