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PHY 418: Statistical Mechanics I
Prof. S. Teitel stte@pas.rochester.edu ---- Spring 2011

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lecture 15

quantum ensembles, density matrix, quantum microcanonical, canonical, and grand canonical ensembles

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lecture 16

quantum harmonic osciallator at temperature T, Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac statistics, Pauli exlusion principle, occupation number representation, density matrix for two non-interacting particles

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lecture 17

quantum correlations as an effective classical pair interaction, N-particle partition function in the position-space basis, partition functions for non-interacting quantum ideal gas, classical partition function in the occupation number representation

HW #4 due

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lecture 18

average occupation number, the classical vs quantum limits of the ideal gas, the quantized harmonic oscillator as bosons

9:40 - 10:55 am in BL 372

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MIDTERM EXAM in class

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lecture canceled

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lecture 19

Debye model for specific heat of a solid, black body radiation

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lecture 20

quantum ideal gas, standard functions, pressure, density, energy, the leading correction to the classical limit, the degenerate Fermi gas and the Fermi energy

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lecture 21

degenerate Fermi gas, ground state energy, the Sommerfeld expansion, chemical potential at finite temperature, specific heat

9:40 - 10:55 am in BL 375