513.001 Molecular and Solid State Physics

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MIT 8.231 Physics of Solids, 5.3

Find the density of states as a function of energy for a non-interacting free electron gas in two dimensions.

For this system it is possible to find an analytic expression for the temperature dependence of the chemical potential. Show that

where n is the number of electrons per unit area.