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Fluctuations in the level density of a Fermi gas

P. Leboeuf, A. G. Monastra, A. Relano

nucl-tharXiv:nucl-th/0411068

Abstract

We present a theory that accurately describes the counting of excited states of a noninteracting fermionic gas. At high excitation energies the results reproduce Bethe's theory. At low energies oscillatory corrections to the many--body density of states, related to shell effects, are obtained. The fluctuations depend non-trivially on energy and particle number. Universality and connections with Poisson statistics and random matrix theory are established for regular and chaotic single--particle motion.

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