I'd really appreciate any insight on any of this since I've hit a wall. It is about the Fermi gas.
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My teacher did an example in class that didn't make much sense, and I'm trying to understand it. He had us take the real-part of the antiderivative of exp(ik(x-x'))dk, then evaluate it to...
Homework Statement
Show that the following function is not square integrable, i.e. that it is not continuous.
\int_{-\infty}^{\infty} \left ( e^{ikx} \right )^{2}dx
Homework Equations
See above. Also:
\int \left ( e^{ikx} \right )^{2}dx = -\frac{ie^{2ikx}}{2k}
The Attempt at a...
Any ideas? It seems box normalizing is done w/the wavefunction for a free particle to assume a finite box rather than infinite dimensions. Is that basically box normalizing? How is that helpful with the black body?
I didn't know that! I never thought of it parametrically before. Interesting... To be honest, though, I'm still not sure about the bounds for my case. I figure since "physically" they have to do with finding an electron at some displacement, it is extended over all space from negative infinity...
That's what I originally thought (over all space for my "functions"). Yet, that made me wonder, for something like the orthonormal Legendre polynomials, which are generated by Gram Schmidt on (-1,1) they are not used merely within those bounds...
Right. But the process involves integrating over some space, which is why I asked about the bounds. I was thinking that given my functions, 0 to 2pi might not be a good choice, but negative pi to pi or negative infinity to infinity are better choices. How do I choose the appropriate interval...
How do you choose the interval? Does it matter conceptually that the Legendre polynomials, for instance, are orthonormalised over (-1,1)? Does that mean that even though they are not orthonormal over all space even though you can obviously graph them over all space?
Specifically, I want to...
We're covering probability of the distance for free electrons with parallel spin (long-range oscillations should go to zero) and using that to get a correlation energy. My teacher wants us to elaborate the following 1D case.
\int e^{ik(x-X)}dk=\frac{e^{ik(x-X)}}{i(x-X)}\Rightarrow...
In class we worked out the following
\int e^{ik(x-X)}dk=\frac{e^{ik(x-X)}}{i(x-X)}\approx \frac{sin[k(x-X)]}{x-X}
by taking the real part of the solution. My teacher wants us to graph the following functions
\psi_{1} \sim \frac{sin(x)}{x}
\psi_{2} \sim...
My teacher worked out the following and said it's a unitary transformation (how?) of exp(ikx). He said we're supposed to find the periodic bounds of integration - but I thought for Fourier transforms the bounds are negative infinity to infinity, so in this case shouldn't it just be the Dirac...