In analogy with the previous problem, consider a system of identical spin0bosonstrapped in a region where the energy levels are evenly spaced. Assume that Nis a large number, and again let qbe the number of energy units.

(a) Draw diagrams representing all allowed system states from q=0up to q=6.Instead of using dots as in the previous problem, use numbers to indicate the number of bosons occupying each level.

(b) Compute the occupancy of each energy level, for q=6. Draw a graph of the occupancy as a function of the energy at each level.

(c) Estimate values of μand Tthat you would have to plug into the Bose-Einstein distribution to best fit the graph of part(b).

(d) As in part (d) of the previous problem, draw a graph of entropy vs energy and estimate the temperature at q=6from this graph.

Short Answer

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a. The required diagram is given below.

b. The occupancy of each energy level is 191181141121111111100....

c. The value of μand Tis n¯BE=1ee2.2η-1.

d. The temperature at q=6from graph iskT=2.35η.

Step by step solution

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Part (a) step 1: Given Information

We need to draw the diagram representing all allowed system states fromq=0up toq=6Instead of using dots.

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Part (a) step 2:Simplifly

Suppose we have a spin-0bosontrapped in a region where the energy level is evenly spaced, ,the representation of the states from zero energy units q=0to six energy unit q=6is shown unit q=0is shown in the following figure, for q=1there is one state, for q=1there is one state, for q=2 there are two states, for q=3there are three states, for q=4there is five states, for q=5there are seven states and finally for q=6there are eleven states.

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Part (b) step 1: Given Information

We need to draw a graph of the occupancy as a function of the energy at each level.

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Part (b) step 2: Simplify

To find the occupancy of each level, we add the number in each level and divide it over 11 states, in the lowest level the sum is 19, in the second-lowest level the sum is 8, in the third-lowest the sum is 4, in the fourth-lowest level the sum is 2, in the fifth-lowest level the sum is1, in the sixth-lowest level the sum is 1,and the sum of the seventh level is zero, so the occupancies are:

191181141121111111100....

the energy of the level equals the spacing between the levels ηmultiplied by the order of the level, so when we plot a graph between the dimensionless energy and the probability, we draw this between εηand η¯, the graph will looks like this

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Part (c) step 1: Given Information

We need to find Estimate values of μand Tthat you would have to plug into the Bose-Einstein distribution to best fit the graph of part(b).

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Part (c) step 2: Simplify

For Bose Einstein distribution, the chemical potential equals the energy level when the occupancy goes to infinity, from the graph we see that the occupancy goes to zero at ε=0,so the chemical potential is zero.Bose-Einstein distribution is given by:

role="math" localid="1649939548278" n¯BE=1eε-μkT-1

set μ=0then,

n¯BE=1eekT-1

I got a good match when kT=2.2η, therefore the Bose-Einstein distribution will be

n¯BE=1ee2.2η-1

I plot this function and the points on the same graph,

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Part (d) step 1:Given Information 

We need to draw draw a graph of entropy vs energy and estimate the temperature atq=6 from this graph.

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Part (d) step 2: Simplify

The entropy equals Boltzmann constant multiplies by the natural logarithm of the multiplicity, that is:

Sk=lnΩ

the multiplicities that correspond each energy units are shown in the following table:

qΩsk010110220.693331.098451.609571.9466112.397

a plot between qandSklooks like this:

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Part (d) step 3: Calculation

The slope of the graph is :

1Skq=2.397-0.6936-2=0.426

but,

q=Uηq=Uη

thus,

ηSkU=0.426

the temperature equals the difference in the energy Uover the difference in the entropy that is

T=US

thus,

ηk×1T=0.426

kT=2.35η

and which is a rough agreement with the result of part (c).

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Consider a system consisting of a single impurity atom/ion in a semiconductor. Suppose that the impurity atom has one "extra" electron compared to the neighboring atoms, as would a phosphorus atom occupying a lattice site in a silicon crystal. The extra electron is then easily removed, leaving behind a positively charged ion. The ionized electron is called a conduction electron because it is free to move through the material; the impurity atom is called a donor, because it can "donate" a conduction electron. This system is analogous to the hydrogen atom considered in the previous two problems except that the ionization energy is much less, mainly due to the screening of the ionic charge by the dielectric behavior of the medium.

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(c) Now assume that every conduction electron comes from an ionized donor atom. In this case the number of conduction electrons is equal to the number of donors that are ionized. Use this condition to derive a quadratic equation for Ncin terms of the number of donor atoms Nd, eliminatingµ. Solve for Ncusing the quadratic formula. (Hint: It's helpful to introduce some abbreviations for dimensionless quantities. Tryx=NcNd,t=kTland so on.)

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At the surface of the sun, the temperature is approximately 5800 K.

(a) How much energy is contained in the electromagnetic radiation filling a cubic meter of space at the sun's surface?

(b) Sketch the spectrum of this radiation as a function of photon energy. Mark the region of the spectrum that corresponds to visible wavelengths, between 400 nm and 700 nm.

(c) What fraction of the energy is in the visible portion of the spectrum? (Hint: Do the integral numerically.)

The argument given above for why CvTdoes not depend on the details of the energy levels available to the fermions, so it should also apply to the model considered in Problem 7.16: a gas of fermions trapped in such a way that the energy levels are evenly spaced and non-degenerate.

(a) Show that, in this model, the number of possible system states for a given value of q is equal to the number of distinct ways of writing q as a sum of positive integers. (For example, there are three system states for q = 3, corresponding to the sums 3, 2 + 1, and 1 + 1 + 1. Note that 2 + 1 and 1 + 2 are not counted separately.) This combinatorial function is called the number of unrestricted partitions of q, denoted p(q). For example, p(3) = 3.

(b) By enumerating the partitions explicitly, compute p(7) and p(8).

(c) Make a table of p(q) for values of q up to 100, by either looking up the values in a mathematical reference book, or using a software package that can compute them, or writing your own program to compute them. From this table, compute the entropy, temperature, and heat capacity of this system, using the same methods as in Section 3.3. Plot the heat capacity as a function of temperature, and note that it is approximately linear.

(d) Ramanujan and Hardy (two famous mathematicians) have shown that when q is large, the number of unrestricted partitions of q is given approximately by

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Check the accuracy of this formula for q = 10 and for q = 100. Working in this approximation, calculate the entropy, temperature, and heat capacity of this system. Express the heat. capacity as a series in decreasing powers of kT/η, assuming that this ratio is large and keeping the two largest terms. Compare to the numerical results you obtained in part (c). Why is the heat capacity of this system independent of N, unlike that of the three dimensional box of fermions discussed in the text?


Fill in the steps to derive equations 7.112and7.117.

Sometimes it is useful to know the free energy of a photon gas.

(a) Calculate the (Helmholtz) free energy directly from the definition

(Express the answer in terms of T' and V.)

(b) Check the formula S=-(F/T)Vfor this system.

(c) Differentiate F with respect to V to obtain the pressure of a photon gas. Check that your result agrees with that of the previous problem.

(d) A more interesting way to calculate F is to apply the formula F=-kTlnZ separately to each mode (that is, each effective oscillator), then sum over all modes. Carry out this calculation, to obtain

F=8πV(kT)4(hc)30x2ln1-e-xdx

Integrate by parts, and check that your answer agrees with part (a).

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