Timeline for Fermi-Dirac distribution derivation?
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| Mar 4, 2014 at 21:09 | vote | accept | m.mybo | ||
| Mar 1, 2014 at 19:09 | answer | added | joshphysics | timeline score: 6 | |
| Mar 1, 2014 at 15:42 | comment | added | JeffDror | @m.mybo: I'm likely missing something (I'm not an expert at all in Stat Mech) but wouldn't a state with no fermions have $\epsilon_0=0$ and hence both forms of the partition function are equivalent? | |
| Mar 1, 2014 at 14:29 | comment | added | Nanite | You are using the canonical ensemble, which means that you can only get Fermi Dirac statistics after making some approximations. Your derivation will probably also be long and ugly. You can keep using the density matrix formalism but consider switching to Fock space and the grand canonical ensemble, where Fermi Dirac statistics are exactly derivable in about two lines. | |
| Mar 1, 2014 at 13:53 | history | edited | Qmechanic♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
It seems the homework tag applies even if it is not actual homework
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| Mar 1, 2014 at 12:56 | comment | added | A. Kennard | This might help: physics.stackexchange.com/q/18576 | |
| Mar 1, 2014 at 12:33 | history | asked | m.mybo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |