fermi-distribution

Characterizing Asymptotic Expansions of Quantum Fermi Gas

abstract

We characterize in a novel manner the physical properties of the low temperature Fermi gas in the degenerate domain as a function of temperature and chemical potential. For the first time we obtain low temperature $T$ results in the domain where several fermions are found within a de Broglie spatial cell. In this regime, the usual high degeneracy Sommerfeld expansion fails. The other known semi-classical Boltzmann domain applies when fewer than one particle is found in the de Broglie cell. The relative errors of the three approximate methods (Boltzmann limit, Sommerfeld expansion, and the new domain of several particles in the de Broglie cell) are quantified. In order to extend the understanding of the Sommerfeld expansion, we developed a novel characterization of the Fermi distribution allowing the separation of the finite and zero temperature phenomena.

authors

Jeremiah Birrell, Martin Formanek, Andrew Steinmetz, Cheng Tao Yang, Johann Rafelski

cite as

Birrell, J., Formanek, M., Steinmetz, A., Yang, C. T., Rafelski, J. Characterizing Asymptotic Expansions of Quantum Fermi Gas. (2024) e-print: arXiv:2405.05287 [cond-mat.quant-gas].

doi/arXiv id

• https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2405.05287

license

Copyright © 2023 by the authors. Submitted to the International Journal of Theoretical Physics.