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Thermal Properties of an Incompletely Degenerate Fermi Gas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

N. F. Mott
N. F. Mott
Affiliation:
Gonville and Caius College
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The purpose of this note is to calculate the specific heat and paramagnetic susceptibility of an electron gas obeying the Fermi-Dirac statistics for all temperatures, including those temperatures for which the gas is partially degenerate. The results are applicable to the electrons in a metal, whether free or moving in a periodic field, provided only that the number of electronic states per gram atom with energy between E and E + dE can be expressed in the form

as for free electrons.

Type
Research Article
Information
Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 32 , Issue 1 , January 1936 , pp. 108 - 111
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1936

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References

* Cf. Sommerfeld, and Bethe, , Handb. d. Physik, xxiv/2, p. 344.Google Scholar