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The Fermi-Dirac Distribution

The Fermi-Dirac distribution describes how fermions like electrons are distributed across different quantum energy states. It includes a normalization term involving temperature and the Fermi energy, below which states are fully occupied at absolute zero according to the Pauli exclusion principle, with higher energy states empty.

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The Fermi-Dirac Distribution

The Fermi-Dirac distribution describes how fermions like electrons are distributed across different quantum energy states. It includes a normalization term involving temperature and the Fermi energy, below which states are fully occupied at absolute zero according to the Pauli exclusion principle, with higher energy states empty.

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The Fermi-Dirac Distribution

The Fermi-Dirac distribution applies to fermions, particles with half-integer spin which must obey the Pauli exclusion principle. Each type of distribution function has a normalization term multiplying the exponential in the denominator which may be temperature dependent. For the Fermi-Dirac case, that term is usually written

The significance of the Fermi energy is most clearly seem by setting T!". #t absolute zero, the probability is !$ for energies less than the Fermi energy and zero for energies greater than the Fermi energy. %e picture all the le&els up to the Fermi energy as filled, but no particle has a greater energy. This is entirely consistent with the Pauli exclusion principle where each 'uantum state can ha&e one but only one particle.

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