From Florence to Fermions: a historical reconstruction of the origins of Fermi's statistics one hundred years later
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| author | Casalbuoni, Roberto Dominici, Daniele |
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| contents | Aim of this paper is to retrace the path that led the young Enrico Fermi to write his paper on the statistics of an ideal monatomic gas. This discovery originated in his interest, which he had shown since his formative years, in the absolute entropy constant and in the problems he highlighted in Sommerfeld's quantization in the case of identical particle systems. The fundamental step taken by Fermi in writing his work on statistics was to apply the Exclusion Principle, formulated for electrons in an atom and which could therefore have been a pure effect due to dynamics, to a system of non-interacting particles. |
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| spellingShingle | From Florence to Fermions: a historical reconstruction of the origins of Fermi's statistics one hundred years later Casalbuoni, Roberto Dominici, Daniele History and Philosophy of Physics High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory Quantum Physics Aim of this paper is to retrace the path that led the young Enrico Fermi to write his paper on the statistics of an ideal monatomic gas. This discovery originated in his interest, which he had shown since his formative years, in the absolute entropy constant and in the problems he highlighted in Sommerfeld's quantization in the case of identical particle systems. The fundamental step taken by Fermi in writing his work on statistics was to apply the Exclusion Principle, formulated for electrons in an atom and which could therefore have been a pure effect due to dynamics, to a system of non-interacting particles. |
| title | From Florence to Fermions: a historical reconstruction of the origins of Fermi's statistics one hundred years later |
| topic | History and Philosophy of Physics High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory Quantum Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.04484 |