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Finite-mode non-interacting thermal ensembles: two fermions in three modes and two bosons in two modes
Two exact finite-mode thermal computations in the declared non-interacting model: the canonical partition sums, ground energies and occupation means of two spinless fermions in three modes with energies 0, epsilon, 2 epsilon, and of two spinless bosons in two modes with energies 0 and epsilon, at assigned temperature. The examples are model computations in declared finite-dimensional idealizations; they assert no physical particle species, no measured occupation and no thermodynamic limit.
Example
Adopt P1, P2 and P6 in the readings of The declared finite-mode model and its occupation readouts and Assigned sharp observables and the outcome law of the framework, work in the finite-mode realization of the declared fixed- model of The declared fixed-N many-body model: species sector, one-particle data, interaction and the sector energy observable, and adopt the canonical equilibrium postulate The canonical equilibrium-ensemble assumption: the Gibbs preparation of a declared model at assigned temperature at assigned temperature with . Fix in joules.
Fermionic model. One-particle space with modes , fermionic statistics , , zero interaction , and the declared one-particle operator .
Bosonic model. One-particle space with modes , bosonic statistics , , zero interaction , and .
Then:
(a) in the fermionic model the antisymmetric sector has orthonormal eigenbasis with energies ; the partition sum and the exact occupation means are with and ground energy (configuration );
(b) in the bosonic model the symmetric sector has orthogonal eigenbasis with energies ; the partition sum and the exact occupation means are with and ground energy ;
(c) scope: the computations are exact statements about the declared finite-mode models at the assigned temperature; they assert no physical species, no measured occupation, no thermalisation and no thermodynamic limit.
Verification
[L1] Diagonalisation theorem. In the non-interacting finite-mode model the labelled operator is diagonal on the product basis with eigenvalue , the Slater vectors and the symmetric vectors are eigenvectors of the sector operator with eigenvalues and , and the partition sum is the corresponding finite sum (Diagonalisation of the non-interacting finite-mode sector: occupation eigenvalues, partition sum and ground energy clauses (a)-(c)).
[L2] Occupation operators. The occupation operators act on the sector basis by and , and the sector dimensions are three in both the bosonic and fermionic cases; the occupations are assigned sharp observables with finite means in every preparation (Slater and symmetric occupation-number bases of the finite-dimensional permutation sectors clauses (c), (d), Finite-mode occupation configurations: fermionic exclusion counts, bosonic counts and truncated dimensions clauses (a), (b), Mean, second moment and variance of an assigned observable in a preparation).
Proof technique: direct; list the occupation configurations, read their energies from the diagonalisation theorem, and compute the weighted means in the canonical weights.
Given: the declared fermionic and bosonic finite-mode models, the energies , the assigned temperature data , and [L1], [L2].
[Fermionic configuration sum] The two-element subsets of are with energies , , by [L1]; the canonical weights are , and the occupation means are by [L2], giving the three displayed formulas. The total occupation is because every configuration has two occupied modes, and the smallest energy is that of , namely , by [L1] clause (c). This proves (a).
[Bosonic configuration sum] The occupation vectors of total two in two modes are with energies by [L1]; the canonical weights are and the occupation means are by [L2], giving and , and the total occupation is because every configuration has ; the ground energy is by [L1] clause (c). This proves (b).
[Checks and scope] In both models is a finite sum of positive terms, hence ; the displayed occupation sums equal the particle number identically in by steps 1.1-1.2, and the ground energies agree with the general formulas of [L1] clause (c) for the sorted energy lists and . Every quantity is a spectral datum of the declared finite-dimensional model; no physical species, measured occupation, thermalisation or thermodynamic limit entered, which is (c).
Remarks
- Dimension counts. The fermionic sector is three-dimensional by exclusion and the bosonic sector is three-dimensional by the configuration count; the two examples are therefore directly comparable finite checks of the diagonalisation theorem at different statistics.
- Exactness. The formulas are exact rational functions of ; no expansion in is used, and the dilute-limit approximations are treated separately on this page.
Depends on
The declared fixed-N many-body model: species sector, one-particle data, interaction and the sector energy observable
Entropy, the Boltzmann constant and the free-energy functional of the declared finite-sector model
The canonical equilibrium-ensemble assumption: the Gibbs preparation of a declared model at assigned temperature
Diagonalisation of the non-interacting finite-mode sector: occupation eigenvalues, partition sum and ground energy
The declared finite-mode model and its occupation readouts
Assigned sharp observables and the outcome law of the framework
Mean, second moment and variance of an assigned observable in a preparation
Dimensions, SI unit conventions and quantity types of the framework
State and composition postulate P1: Hilbert spaces, preparations and composite systems
Observable and probability postulate P2: self-adjoint observables, spectral probability and finite unsharp outcomes
Identical-particle and spin assignments P6: permutation sectors and finite-spin representations
Slater and symmetric occupation-number bases of the finite-dimensional permutation sectors
Finite-mode occupation configurations: fermionic exclusion counts, bosonic counts and truncated dimensions
Hilbert space
The Axiom of Countable Choice ()
Dependency tree · 2 levels
Sources
- F. H. L. Essler, Advanced Quantum Theory (Oxford lecture notes, 2017/18), Sections 1.1-1.2 and 1.4 pp. 3-13: independent-particle eigenstates as tensor products, occupation-number configurations, Fock-space sectors and the second-quantised form of one-body operators
- J. Binney and D. Skinner, The Physics of Quantum Mechanics, Section 10.1 printed pages 226-230 (PDF pages 234-238): counting of antisymmetric two-particle configurations and the exclusion rule