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RECENTLY London1, Tisza2 and others have studied in detail the peculiar condensation phenomena for a Bose-Einstein gas because of its possible application to liquid helium II. As is well known, the condensed phase occurs in a Bose-Einstein gas when for a given temperature T and volume V, the number (N) of particles exceeds the value N* given by neglecting the effect of relativistic mechanics, where m is the mass of a particle, g its weight factor by virtue of its internal structure, and the other symbols have their usual meaning. The condensed phase is populated by (N – N*) particles lying in the zero energy state. In this note the possible existence of a condensed phase for a Fermi-Dirac gas is discussed.
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KOTHARI, D., NATH, B. 'Condensation' in Fermi-Dirac Statistics. Nature 151, 420 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/151420a0
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