Ideal Bosegas

An ideal bose gas is a quantum mechanical version of the classical ideal gas . So it is a gas of free , non-interacting bosons . Bosons are particles with integer spin that follow Bose-Einstein statistics .

The statistical mechanics for bosons was developed by Satyendra Nath Bose for photons . It was further developed for massive particles by Albert Einstein , who recognized that an ideal gas composed of bosons has a phase transition and would condense to form a Bose-Einstein condensate if the temperature fell below a certain critical value . This is not the case for a classic ideal gas.

Applications

The lambda transition from helium ⁴ He to superfluid helium II shows some parallels to the Bose-Einstein condensation, whereas liquid ³ He can be modeled as an ideal Fermi gas .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Torsten Fließbach: Statistical Physics: Textbook on Theoretical Physics IV . Springer, 2010, ISBN 978-3-8274-2527-0 ( limited preview in Google book search).
↑ Wolfgang Nolting: Basic Course Theoretical Physics 6: Statistical Physics . Springer, 2007, ISBN 978-3-540-68870-9 ( limited preview in Google book search).

[fließbach-1] Torsten Fließbach: Statistical Physics: Textbook on Theoretical Physics IV . Springer, 2010, ISBN 978-3-8274-2527-0 ( limited preview in Google book search).

[2] Wolfgang Nolting: Basic Course Theoretical Physics 6: Statistical Physics . Springer, 2007, ISBN 978-3-540-68870-9 ( limited preview in Google book search).