caa a22 4500 465755070 CHVBK 20180323111844.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170327e19900601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF01166422 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF01166422 Lee M. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Georgia, 30602, Athens, GA, USA aut Fermionic chemical potential [Elektronische Daten] [M. Lee] This paper gives a critical review of the physical meaning of the chemical potential, perhaps the most abstract of all thermodynamic quantities. To show its basic behavior, thereby to illustrate its physical significance, we have derived the chemical potential of a system of free electrons as a function of the density and temperature in different spatial dimensions. We have shown how to obtain the isothermal compressibility given the chemical potential. To emphasize the usefulness of the knowledge of dimensional dependence, both the compressibility and average kinetic energy are expressed as simple dimensional relationships of the density and, hence, the chemical potential. Finally, there is a certain temperature at which the chemical potential should identically vanish. Physical implications of zero chemical potential are discussed. J.C. Baltzer AG, Scientific Publishing Company, 1990 Journal of Mathematical Chemistry Kluwer Academic Publishers 5/2(1990-06-01), 83-98 0259-9791 5:2<83 1990 5 10910 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01166422 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 review-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01166422 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Lee M. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Georgia, 30602, Athens, GA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Mathematical Chemistry Kluwer Academic Publishers 5/2(1990-06-01), 83-98 0259-9791 5:2<83 1990 5 10910 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer