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The agreement in order of magnitude is good. The differences, especially in Rb, and in Cs (where the sign does not agree), can be explained as due to the neglect of facts which should be considered. Thus, in the heavy elements the inner electronic shells make an appreciable contribution to the diamagnetism, and in all metals the assumption of entirely free electrons is incorrect, as we proceed to explain more fully. 

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Following these assumptions, the Newton motion equation, along the x-axis, for the electrons in the free electron gas is given by 

the steady-state solution of the Newton equation for the electron in the electron gas under the influence of an external electric field is given by 

FIGURE 1.9 Electron trajectories in the electron gas or Drude model. 

The previously described theory in its original form assumes that the classical kinetic theory of gases is applicable to the electron gas, that is, electrons are expected to have velocities that are temperature dependent according to the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution law. But, the Maxwell-Boltzmann energy distribution has no restrictions to the number of species allowed to have exactly the same energy. However, in the case of electrons, there are restrictions to the number of electrons with identical energy, that is, the Pauli exclusion principle consequently, we have to apply a different form of statistics, the Fermi-Dirac statistics. 

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For a free electron gas, it is possible to evaluate the Flartree-Fock exchange energy directly [3, 16]. The Slater detemiinant is constructed using ftee electron orbitals. Each orbital is labelled by a k and a spin index. The Coulomb... 

Using the above expression and equation Al.3.19. the total electron energy, for a free electron gas... 

Simple metals like alkalis, or ones with only s and p valence electrons, can often be described by a free electron gas model, whereas transition metals and rare earth metals which have d and f valence electrons camiot. Transition metal and rare earth metals do not have energy band structures which resemble free electron models. The fonned bonds from d and f states often have some strong covalent character. This character strongly modulates the free-electron-like bands. 

The first mtegral is the energy needed to move electrons from fp to orbitals with energy t> tp, and the second integral is the energy needed to bring electrons to p from orbitals below p. The heat capacity of the electron gas can be found by differentiating AU with respect to T. The only J-dependent quantity is/(e). So one obtains... 

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Modelling plasma chemical systems is a complex task, because these system are far from thennodynamical equilibrium. A complete model includes the external electric circuit, the various physical volume and surface reactions, the space charges and the internal electric fields, the electron kinetics, the homogeneous chemical reactions in the plasma volume as well as the heterogeneous reactions at the walls or electrodes. These reactions are initiated primarily by the electrons. In most cases, plasma chemical reactors work with a flowing gas so that the flow conditions, laminar or turbulent, must be taken into account. As discussed before, the electron gas is not in thennodynamic equilibrium... 

The carriers in tire channel of an enhancement mode device exhibit unusually high mobility, particularly at low temperatures, a subject of considerable interest. The source-drain current is carried by electrons attracted to tire interface. The ionized dopant atoms, which act as fixed charges and limit tire carriers mobility, are left behind, away from tire interface. In a sense, tire source-drain current is carried by tire two-dimensional (2D) electron gas at tire Si-gate oxide interface. 

The local density approximation (LDA) is the oldest and simplest of the functional types stiU in use. It is based on the idea of a imiform electron gas, a homogeneous... 

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This rule conforms with the principle of equipartition of energy, first enunciated by Maxwell, that the heat capacity of an elemental solid, which reflected the vibrational energy of a tliree-dimensional solid, should be equal to 3f JK moH The anomaly that the free electron dreory of metals described a metal as having a tliree-dimensional sUmcture of ion-cores with a three-dimensional gas of free electrons required that the electron gas should add anodier (3/2)7 to the heat capacity if the electrons behaved like a normal gas as described in Maxwell s kinetic theory, whereas die quanmtii theory of free electrons shows that diese quantum particles do not contribute to the heat capacity to the classical extent, and only add a very small component to the heat capacity. 

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