Fermi-dirac Definition and 48 Threads

1)In my book , there is a definition of fermi energy as topmost filled level in the ground state of an N electron system. This definition holds only for absolute zero,right? If it is not absolute zero,fermi energy is the energy at which the probability of a state being occupied is 50 percent...

I`m sorry if this seems too obvious, just trying to clarify something. When Fermi-Dirac distribution is equal to zero , can we assume it is the state of the highest energy? (Because the propability of occupation is zero)

The limit itself is pretty easy to calculate ##lim_{T->0} \ lim_{\mu->\epsilon_F} \ (e^{\frac{(\epsilon_F - \mu)}{kT}}+1)^{-1} = \frac{1}{2}## But I'm very confused about changing ##\epsilon_\vec{k}## to ##\epsilon_F##. Why do we do this?

Good Day : i reached the page 40 of Ashcroft Mermin book and after the equation 2.38 there is this expression of E(a,N) which is equal to Helmoltez Free energy F = U - TS , how this two terms F , E are related ? anyone can provide adequate explanation , and few useful references Best...

hi guys I have a question about whether or not the Fermi-Dirac Integral has Been solved, because i found a formula on Wikipedia that relates the Fermi-Dirac integral with the polylogarithm function: $$F_{j}(x) = -Li_{j+1}(-e^{x})$$ and in some recent papers they claim that no analytical...

I am studyng the deduction of Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein distribution, but I'm not understanding one part. If we have a system of ##N## identical non-interaction particles, with energies levels ##\varepsilon _{l}## and occupation number ##n_{l}## (this is the number of particles with the same...

Hello everyone. I'm having trouble understanding this example: https://ecee.colorado.edu/~bart/book/book/chapter2/ch2_5.htm#2_5_2 In this system of 20 electrons with equidistant energy levels, how is it known that there are only 24 possible configurations, and how are those configurations found?

Many times, the charge carrier density of a material is determined from a Hall effect experiment, from ##R_H=1/(ne)## (SI units). Where ##R_H## is determined from a measured voltage and other controllable parameters. As far as I know, this simple formula comes from the obsolete Drude's model...

Hello! Thanks for your time reading my questions. When I was studying quantum statistical mechanics, I get so confused about the relations between Pauli's exclusion principle and the Fermi-Dirac distributions. 1. The Pauli's exclusion principle says that: Two fermions can't occupy the same...

Is there a simple explanation for fermi-dirac statistics? I can't understand how a particle can "follow" a statistic.

Well, the question is if the well known occupation distribution of the energy levels for fermions does break, which means when it is not valid anymore. The Fermi-Dirac distribution reads: ##\displaystyle f_{FD}(E)=\frac{1}{exp\left({\frac{E-\mu}{k_B T}}\right)+1}## And gives the occupation...

Homework Statement The actual question was deriving Bose-Einstein, but I got confused on the F-D example. I'm basically following the method given here. Homework Equations [All taken directly from the above link] Taylor series: The Attempt at a Solution So after that third equation...

Homework Statement Show that the FD distribution can be viewed as giving the probability that a given state ( of the prescribed energy) is occupied. Homework EquationsThe Attempt at a Solution Solution to this problem: I understand the solution,but I took a different approach...

Homework Statement An electron has two spin states and a set of energy levels E1,E2,... By the Fermi-dirac distrbution,the mean number of electrons in energy level Ek is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi–Dirac_statistics#Distribution_of_particles_over_energy Does it mean that,for an electron...

Homework Statement I'm trying to understand a derivation of the Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein distributions. In my textbook Thermal Physics by D. V. Schroeder it says: "The idea is to first consider a "system" consisting of one single-particle state, rather than a particle itself. Thus the...

I'm an A level student currently trying to understand the behaviour and properties of neutrinos, and wanted to check that I've understood the basics of neutrino properties. As neutrinos are half-integer spin particles, can the Fermi-Dirac distribution be used to calculated the probable...

i am completely lost. there is an integral in my textbook in fermi dirac statistics whose result is written directly and am not able to understand . it is . on expansion by using the method of taylor's series the result should be where u_f is such that function of u is zero for u greater...

i am completely lost. there is an integral in my textbook in fermi dirac statistics whose result is written directly and am not able to understand . it is ∫⌽(u) du /exp.((u-uf)/kt) + 1 from 0 to ∞ expanded by tayor's series to give...

Homework Statement I need to solve this integral, $$\int _{-\infty }^{\infty }x\left( \dfrac {1} {1-e^{-x}}+\dfrac {1} {1+qe^{-x}}\right) dx$$ My advisor said its solution will be zero. But i haven't improved it yet. There is important case. This integral is divergent at x=0. So, i should...

How to find the normalization constant of Fermi-Dirac distribution function.

http://ecee.colorado.edu/~bart/book/book/chapter2/pdf/ch2_5_5.pdfcan you please tell me where f/(f(gi,fi) is from? and also how to get to (2.5.13)

In the graphs that I see around the internet I see that the energy axis starts at 0 eV and it goes up. So the electrons have positive energies. But in the electronic band structure, the electrons have negative energies. And if they go to infinity, then their energy becomes 0. So, what is...

So I have just been reading up on statistical thermodynamics and have no idea why the bose-einstein, fermi dirac and maxwell boltzman are all integers, that makes sense, but then when you make the degenerate correction to the maxwell Boltzmann by dividing by N! we get decimal answers. Why is...

Hi all, The probability that a state is occupied means : 1) Fully Occupied by 2 electrons Spin up and Spin down or 2) Occupied by 1 electron only . Thanks

Hi All, In relation to the Boltzmann distribution vs the FD/BE distributions in different applications, I have 2 basic questions: 1. The Boltzmann distribution comes most easily from the Canonical Ensemble (constant N, V,T) while the FD/BE come from the Grand Canonical ensemble (constant .mu...

Homework Statement Monovalent copper (one conduction electron per atom) has a density of 9000 kg m-3 and atomic mass of 64 amu (ie. 1 kmole = 64kg). Find: a)The density of conduction electrons per unit volume b)the Fermi energy in electron volts Homework Equations f(E) =...

Hello everyone! I'm a little confused. The Fermi-Dirac distribution is about every electron in a metal or only about the valence electrons?

The average particle energy of a Fermi-Dirac gas, with zero chemical potential, is about 3.15T, where T is the temperture of this gas. To get the average energy, one needs to do an integration. The integrand is something like \frac{x^3}{e^{x/k_BT}+1}. I could get the result numerically. But...

What are the formulas for entropy and internal energy in Fermi-Dirac statistics, and how do I derive them?

Homework Statement Consider a free-electron gas at a temperature T such that kT << E_f Write down the expression for the electron number desnity N/V for electrons that have an energy in excess of of E_f. Show by making the change of variables (E-E_f)/kT = x. that the number desnity is...

Hi! I have a little question which is puzzling me. Maybe it is a very simple question. It is my understanding that the Fermi-Dirac distribution is a probability density function and, as such, its integral between 0 and infinite should be 1. When T = 0, the integral gives the chemical...

An electron state has energy 0.14 eV above the Fermi energy. What is the probability that the electron state will be occupied at T = 200K? do i just use the following formula? the part that throws me off is the "above the Fermi energy" bit. would i just plug that number in for E - Ef??

Does the inertia of either a Bose-Einstein or Fermi-Dirac condensate increase linearly with the number of particles?

Please teach me whether it is possible there are any distributions different from Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein distributions.Because the Statistic Theorem only demontrates that integer spin particles can't obey Fermi-Dirac distribution and spin-haft particles can't obey Bose-Einstein distribution.

Hi all, I've search for my question and found no answer. I think it should be pretty simple... Fermi energy corresponds to the last occupied energy, as I understand it. So, energy levels in the Fermi gas are all filled with two electron of opposite spins, up to the Fermi energy. Saying it...

For indistinguishable particles we use fermi-dirac(FD) or bose-einstein(BE), and for distinguishable we use maxwell-boltzmann(MB).For the distinguishable case our prof gave us the example of atoms in solid, because the positions of the atoms are fixed, so they are distinguishable, thus satisfy...

Homework Statement Pleas can you help me figure out what I do wrong? At what temperature is the probability that an energy state at 7.00 eV will be populated equal to 25 percent for copper (EF = 6.95 eV)? Homework Equations The formula for the fermi-Dirac Distribution is f(E) =...

Pleas can you help me figure out what I do wrong? At what temperature is the probability that an energy state at 7.00 eV will be populated equal to 25 percent for copper (EF = 6.95 eV)? The formula for the fermi-Dirac Distribution is f(E) = 1/(1+e^((E-EF)/kT)) and looking at the problem I...

hi, I am studying the Higgs Mechanism these days. And I get two questions. I hope some ones could help me. 1>We know that due to the non-zero VEV, SSB takes place and higgs condensates give masses to bosons and fermions. I wonder that after the SSB and before the universe became as cool...

What exactly is Fermi-Dirac statistics? Because I think I can't understand fermions without knowing that.Thanks! Sriram

Hey all, I have two questions. 1) The density of electron energy states is given by g(E) = A sqrt E. Evaluate how many quantum states there are with energies between 9.0eV and 9.1eV. Ansewr in terms of the quantity A. 2) Consider an intrinisic semiconductor. Let Nv and Nc be the number...

Hello! In my course of solid states physics we use the fermi-dirac statistics for a free electron gas in metals. The fermi wave length of the electrons is about 1 Angström. Now, the wavelength may be intepreted as something as a coherence range - the electron should forget about the state of...

general version of fermi-dirac distribution?? merry x-mas everyone! in the Boltzmann distribution every state with energy Ei can be occupied by an arbitrarily large number of molecules. In contrast, if each state can be occupied by only one particle then one needs to use the fermi dirac...

Hi. Does anyone know if it is possible to start from the thermal density matrix \hat \rho_T = \frac{e^{-\hat H_0/kT}}{\mathrm{Tr}e^{-\hat H_0/kT}} and from that derive that the single particle density matrix can be written as \rho(p ; p') = \delta_{p,p'} f(\epsilon_p) just by...

Homework Statement Evaluate the integrals (eqns 5.108 and 5.109) for the case of identical fermions at absolute zero. Homework Equations 5.108 N=\frac{V}{2\pi^{2}}\int_{0}^{\infty}\frac{k^2}{e^{[(\hbar^{2}k^{2}/2m)-\mu]/kT}+1}dk 5.109...

If we have indistinguishable particles, we must use Fermi-Dirac statistics. To Identical and indistinguishable particles, we use Bose-Einstein statistics. And, to distinguishable classical particles we use Maxwell-Boltzmann statistics. I have a system of identical but distinguishable...

Hi all, Does anybody know some reference (even internet one) that explains in detail the derivation of Maxwell´s velocity and/or energy distribution on an ensemble of atoms/molecules ? References to Fermi-Dirac distributions and Bose-Eisntein´s are also welcome. Best Regards, DaTario...

Hey kids, The question I'm having trouble with (this time) is as follows: Show that the Fermi-Dirac distribution function, f_{FD}(E)=\frac{1}{e^{(\frac{E-E_f}{kT})}+1} Has the following functional form at T= 0K (see attachment) Now, the first thing that screamed at me was...