Ideal Quantum Gases
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The indistinguishability of identical particles has profound effects at low temperatures and/or high density where quantum mechanical wave packets overlap appreciably. The occupation representation is used to study the statistical mechanics and thermodynamics of ideal quantum gases satisfying FermiDirac or Bose-Einstein statistics. This notebook concentrates on formal and conceptual developments, liberally quoting more technical results obtained in the auxiliary notebooks occupy.nb, which presents numerical methods for relating the chemical potential to density, and fermi.nb and bose.nb, which study the mathematical properties of special functions defined for Ferm-Dirac and Bose-Einstein systems. The auxiliary notebooks also contain a large number of exercises.
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