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In a large system of distinguishable harmonic oscillator how high does the temperature have to be for the probable number of particles occupying the ground state to be less than 1 ?

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The temperature isT>0kB

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01

energy of a harmonic oscillator 

Like the notation used in the book, we also assume that the potential energy is shifted by-120so that the allowed energy of a harmonic oscillator is given by:En=n0wheren0.......(1)

and its ground state energy isE0=0.

02

The Boltzmann probability distribution:

The key idea here lies from the fact that we are now dealing with an enormous amount of distinguishable harmonic oscillators the probability at which an oscillator is in an energy level is now given by the Boltzmann probability distribution:

PEn=Ae-En/kBT 鈥︹ (2)

where kBis Boltzmann's constant, and T is temperature.

03

 Find the value of the normalization constant .

Before we could utilize eq. (2), first must find the value of the normalization constant A . To do so, we plug in eq. (1) into (2), set the whole expression to l, and evaluate the integral over an interval from 0 to . This translates to:

1=0Ae-n0/kBTdn

Evaluating the above integral, and solving for A we obtain:

1=A0e-n0/kBT=A-kBT0e-n0/kBT0=A-kBT0(0-1)=AkBT0

Above equation can be written as,

A=0kBT

04

Probability of number of particles

Eq. (2) now becomes

P(n)=0kBTe-n0/kBT 鈥︹ (3)

However, since we will be dealing with the probable number of particles in the ground state, then the probability becomes an occupation number N

N(n)=N0kBTe-n0/kBT 鈥︹ (4)

Here N is the total number of particles.

05

Calculating the temperature

To find the temperature T where the probable number of particles in the ground state is less than1, we setn=0 in eq. (4) and transform the expression into an inequality:

N(1)>N0kBTe-(0)0/kBT

Solving for T we finally get:

1>0kBTT>0kB

Thus, the temperature isT>0kB .

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