Timeline for Electron density in metals at non zero temperature
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| Sep 26, 2014 at 11:13 | comment | added | ProfRob | @Jan Hirschner It is the energy density that has the additional quadratic term. I suppose you could think of this as a fraction $\sim kT/E_F$ electrons are above the "roll-off" region in the distribution and each of these has $\sim kT$ of energy above $E_F$. Differentiating this gives a heat capacity that is linearly dependent on $T$. | |
| Sep 26, 2014 at 10:56 | comment | added | Jan Hirschner | Thank you very much, after a short calculation the Sommerfeld expansion adds temperature dependent term to the electron density approximation, which I was looking for. Interesting point is, that I have always thought, that the thermal dependence would turn out linear rather than quadratic. | |
| Sep 26, 2014 at 10:50 | vote | accept | Jan Hirschner | ||
| Sep 26, 2014 at 0:04 | history | edited | ProfRob | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
put in a clearer reference
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| Sep 25, 2014 at 22:07 | history | answered | ProfRob | CC BY-SA 3.0 |