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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.

02

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.

04

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,

07

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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Imagine that there exists a third type of particle, which can share a single-particle state with one other particle of the same type but no more. Thus the number of these particles in any state can be 0,1 or 2 . Derive the distribution function for the average occupancy of a state by particles of this type, and plot the occupancy as a function of the state's energy, for several different temperatures.


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

Compute the quantum volume for an N2molecule at room temperature, and argue that a gas of such molecules at atmospheric pressure can be

treated using Boltzmann statistics. At about what temperature would quantum statistics become relevant for this system (keeping the density constant and pretending that the gas does not liquefy)?

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

p(q)eπ2q343q

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?

For a system obeying Boltzmann statistics, we know what μis from Chapter 6. Suppose, though, that you knew the distribution function (equation 7.31) but didn't know μ. You could still determine μ by requiring that the total number of particles, summed over all single-particle states, equal N. Carry out this calculation, to rederive the formula μ=-kTlnZ1/N. (This is normally how μ is determined in quantum statistics, although the math is usually more difficult.)

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