We find that the spin susceptibility of a two-dimensional electron system with valley degeneracy does not grow critically at low densities, at variance with experimental results [ A. Shashkin et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 96 036403 (2006)]. We ascribe this apparent discrepancy to the weak disorder present in experimental samples. Our prediction is obtained from accurate correlation energies computed with state-of-the-art diffusion Monte Carlo simulations and fitted with an analytical expression which also provides a local spin density functional for the system under investigation.

The Correlation Energy and the Spin Susceptibility of the Two-Valley Two-dimensional Electron Gas

SENATORE, GAETANO
2009-01-01

Abstract

We find that the spin susceptibility of a two-dimensional electron system with valley degeneracy does not grow critically at low densities, at variance with experimental results [ A. Shashkin et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 96 036403 (2006)]. We ascribe this apparent discrepancy to the weak disorder present in experimental samples. Our prediction is obtained from accurate correlation energies computed with state-of-the-art diffusion Monte Carlo simulations and fitted with an analytical expression which also provides a local spin density functional for the system under investigation.
2009
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.035103
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