3.II.34D

Statistical Physics
Part II, 2007

For a 2-dimensional gas of NN nonrelativistic, non-interacting, spinless bosons, find the density of states g(ε)g(\varepsilon) in the neighbourhood of energy ε\varepsilon. [Hint: consider the gas in a box of size L×LL \times L which has periodic boundary conditions. Work in the thermodynamic limit N,LN \rightarrow \infty, L \rightarrow \infty, with N/L2N / L^{2} held finite.]

Calculate the number of particles per unit area at a given temperature and chemical potential.

Explain why Bose-Einstein condensation does not occur in this gas at any temperature.

[Recall that

1Γ(n)0xn1dxz1ex1==1zn]\left.\frac{1}{\Gamma(n)} \int_{0}^{\infty} \frac{x^{n-1} d x}{z^{-1} e^{x}-1}=\sum_{\ell=1}^{\infty} \frac{z^{\ell}}{\ell^{n}}\right]