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Fermi-Dirac distribution

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The Fermi-Dirac distribution gives the probability of a fermion occupying a Microstate with energy $\epsilon$ and chemical potential $\mu$ at a temperature T. It is:

$\displaystyle f(\epsilon) = \frac{1}{1+exp(\frac{\epsilon - \mu}{kT})}$

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Other names:

Fermi-Dirac statistics, Fermi distribution

Cross-references: temperature, chemical potential, Microstate, fermion
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This is version 1 of Fermi-Dirac distribution, born on 2008-03-27.
Object id is 278, canonical name is FermiDiracDistribution.
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Classification:

05.30.Fk (Fermion systems and electron gas )

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