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Enrico Fermi Sticker – Within An Order | Physics Sticker

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How many piano tuners work in Chicago? Enrico Fermi loved questions like that, answered to within a power of ten. He also worked out, in 1926 alongside Dirac, how identical fermions such as electrons fill energy levels. In the Fermi–Dirac distribution, a state at the chemical potential μ is exactly half occupied at any temperature. A 3" pixel-art physicist sticker; equation, symbols and sources in the physics panel below.

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The physics

Enrico Fermi estimated anything to within an order of magnitude — and co-wrote the statistics of fermions.

The Fermi–Dirac occupation is f(E)=1/(e^{(E−μ)/kT}+1). Exactly at E=μ the occupation is 1/2 for any T>0. Cold fermions fill states below μ and empty those above.

On the sticker Fermi stands at a chalkboard of decade cards (10², 10³, 10⁶…). A chalk stub, a tiny CP-1 pile in the corner, and the habit: get the power of ten right.

Fermi estimation and Fermi–Dirac statistics share one name for a reason: count the states, then occupy them.

Within an order.

Equations

\[f(E)=\frac{1}{e^{(E-\mu)/kT}+1}\]
\[f(\mu)=\tfrac12\quad(T>0)\]
SymbolMeaningUnit
\(f(E)\) Fermi–Dirac occupation probability —
\(E\) single-particle energy \(\mathrm{J}\)
\(\mu\) chemical potential \(\mathrm{J}\)
\(k\) Boltzmann constant \(\mathrm{J/K}\)
\(T\) temperature \(\mathrm{K}\)

Sources

  1. Fermi (1926) Zur Quantelung des idealen einatomigen Gases, Z. Phys. 36, 902
  2. Dirac (1926) On the theory of quantum mechanics, Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 112, 661
  3. Pathria & Beale, Statistical Mechanics, Ch. on Fermi–Dirac statistics
  4. Mahajan, Order of Magnitude Physics (Caltech notes)
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