Thermal and Magnetic Properties of Landau–Quantized Group VI Dichalcogenide Carriers in the Approach to the Degenerate Limit

This work is concerned with determination of the thermal and magnetic behavior of the Group VI Dichalcogenides in a quantizing magnetic field. Our analysis treats the principal statistical thermodynamic functions (grand partition function and the ordinary partition function, as well as the grand potential, Helmholtz free energy and the entropy), providing the basis for calculation of the specific heat: Their dependencies on temperature and magnetic field strength are carefully examined, particularly in the degenerate regime and the approach to zero temperature. The joint dependence on magnetic field and temperature is also determined for the Dichalcogenide magnetic moment in the degenerate statistical regime, replete with de Haas–van Alphen oscillatory phenomenology and also above the zero–temperature limit.