Issue |
EPL
Volume 96, Number 5, December 2011
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Article Number | 56003 | |
Number of page(s) | 5 | |
Section | Condensed Matter: Structural, Mechanical and Thermal Properties | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/96/56003 | |
Published online | 17 November 2011 |
Anomalous Fisher-like zeros for the canonical partition function of noninteracting fermions
1
Department of Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University - Hamilton, Canada L8S 4M1
2
Physics Department, Redeemer University College - Ancaster, Ontario, Canada L9K 1J4
Received:
1
September
2011
Accepted:
12
October
2011
Noninteracting fermions, placed in a system with a continuous density of states, may have zeros in the N-fermion canonical partition function on the positive real β axis (or very close to it), even for a small number of particles. This results in a singular free energy, and instability in other thermal properties of the system. In the context of trapped fermions in a harmonic oscillator, these zeros are shown to be unphysical. Our results are also applicable to mean-field canonical calculations for fermions. By contrast, similar bosonic calculations with continuous density of states yield sensible results.
PACS: 64.60.De – Statistical mechanics of model systems (Ising model, Potts model, field-theory models, Monte Carlo techniques, etc.) / 05.30.-d – Quantum statistical mechanics
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