课程名称︰统计物理一 课程性质︰物理所必修 课程教师︰林俊达 开课学院：理学院 开课系所︰物理所 考试日期（年月日）︰111/4/11 考试时限（分钟）：150 试题 : You may write your answers in Chinese or English. 1. (30pts) Consider a gas consisting of N identical, indistinguishable spinless particles of mass m. Each particle can move freely in the x-y plane within a square of area L^2, but along the z direction it is subjected to a harmonic potential mω^2z^2/2. Suppose the gas is at equilibrium at temperature T. (a) (20pts) Estimate the temperature T_1 above which the system can be treated entirely classically. Calculate the classical partition function, average energy, Helmholtz free energy, and entropy as a function of temperature. Is the result consistent with the equipartition theorem? (b) (5pts) Estimate the temperature T_2 below which quantum mechanical effects become relevant in the x-y plane. Find the average energy U for temperatures T such that T_2 << T < T_1, where T_1 is from (a). (c) (5prs) Find the energy and entropy at T = 0. 2. (20pts) Consider a one-dimensional (say, in the x direction) polymer consisting of N segments of length a linked end-to-end in a row. The angle between two adjacent segments can be either 0° or 180°, and there is no energy cost for a segment to flip from one angle to the other. The length of the polymer is defined as L = |N_+ － N_-|a, where N_+ and N_- are the numbers of the segments aligned and anti-aligned to the positive direction of the x axis. (a) (5pts) Show that, for a given L, the corresponding number of microstates is given by N! Ω(N,n) = 2‧────────── N＋n N-n (───)! (───)! 2 2 where n = |N_+ － N_-|. (b) (5pts) Assuming N >> n >> 1, use Boltzmann's formula S = klnΩ and the Stirling's approximate formula to find S in terms of N and L. (c) (5pts) Suppose f is the stretching force of the polymer. The work can be expressed as -fdL, and further the first law and the second law yield TdS = dU － fdL － μdN. Express the stretching force as a function of N, L, and the temperature T. (d) (5pts) Find the chemical potential μ in terms of N, L, and T. 3. (20pts) Consider a long vertical column of some specific substance that is at temperature T everywhere. Below a certain height h(T) the substance is solid whereas above h(T) is liquid due to the pressure caused by gravity. Calculate the density difference Δρ between two phases at h(T) in terms of the latent heat of fusion per unit mas L, the liquid density ρ_l, dh/dT, T, and the gravitational field strength g. Assume |Δρ| << ρ_l. 4. (15pts) Define a quantity J J = U － Nμ = TS － PV. Show that for a system in the grand canonical ensemble ─── ─── 2 2 ┌ ∂U ┐2 2 (ΔJ) = kT Cv ＋ │(──) － μ│ (ΔN) └ ∂N T,V ┘ 5. (15pts) (a) (10pts) For a two-level system, its density matrix can be expressed as ╭ ╮ │ ρ ρ │ │ ee eg │ │ │ │ ρ ρ │ │ ge gg │ ╰ ╯ Prove that the largest possible value of |ρ_eg| is 1/2. (b) (5pts) Discuss (and explain) a scenario where a negative temperature can emerge. In this case, explain what happens when such an object is in contact with another object of normal temperature (T > 0). --

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