Year: 2005
Type: article
Abstract: We relate the Fermi-Dirac statistics of an ideal Fermi gas in a harmonic trap to partitions of given integers into distinct parts, studied in number theory. Using methods of quantum statistical physics we derive analytic expressions for cumulants of the probability distribution of the number of different partitions.
Source: Europhysics Letters (EPL)
Authors: Anna Kubasiak, Jarosław K Korbicz, Jakub Zakrzewski, Maciej Lewenstein
Language: English
Subfield: Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2053427481