Paper 4, Section II, C
Part II, 2012
Non-relativistic electrons of mass are confined to move in a two-dimensional plane of area . Each electron has two spin states. Compute the density of states and show that it is constant.
Write down expressions for the number of particles and the average energy of a gas of fermions in terms of the temperature and chemical potential . Find an expression for the Fermi Energy in terms of .
For , you may assume that the chemical potential does not change with temperature. Compute the low temperature heat capacity of a gas of fermions. [You may use the approximation that, for large ,