Einstein's quantum theory of the monatomic ideal gas: non-statistical arguments for a new statistics
- Publikationstyp:
- Zeitschriftenaufsatz
- Metadaten:
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- Autoren
- Enric Perez
- Tilman Sauer
- Autoren-URL
- https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=fis-test-1&SrcAuth=WosAPI&KeyUT=WOS:000280917200003&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=WOS_CPL
- DOI
- 10.1007/s00407-010-0066-x
- eISSN
- 1432-0657
- Externe Identifier
- Clarivate Analytics Document Solution ID: 638SV
- ISSN
- 0003-9519
- Ausgabe der Veröffentlichung
- 5
- Zeitschrift
- ARCHIVE FOR HISTORY OF EXACT SCIENCES
- Paginierung
- 561 - 612
- Datum der Veröffentlichung
- 2010
- Status
- Published
- Titel
- Einstein's quantum theory of the monatomic ideal gas: non-statistical arguments for a new statistics
- Sub types
- Article
- Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
- 64
Datenquelle: Web of Science (Lite)
- Andere Metadatenquellen:
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- Autoren
- Enric Pérez
- Tilman Sauer
- DOI
- 10.1007/s00407-010-0066-x
- eISSN
- 1432-0657
- ISSN
- 0003-9519
- Ausgabe der Veröffentlichung
- 5
- Zeitschrift
- Archive for History of Exact Sciences
- Sprache
- en
- Online publication date
- 2010
- Paginierung
- 561 - 612
- Datum der Veröffentlichung
- 2010
- Status
- Published
- Herausgeber
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC
- Herausgeber URL
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00407-010-0066-x
- Datum der Datenerfassung
- 2024
- Titel
- Einstein’s quantum theory of the monatomic ideal gas: non-statistical arguments for a new statistics
- Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
- 64
Datenquelle: Crossref
- Abstract
- In this article, we analyze the third of three papers, in which Einstein presented his quantum theory of the ideal gas of 1924-1925. Although it failed to attract the attention of Einstein's contemporaries and although also today very few commentators refer to it, we argue for its significance in the context of Einstein's quantum researches. It contains an attempt to extend and exhaust the characterization of the monatomic ideal gas without appealing to combinatorics. Its ambiguities illustrate Einstein's confusion with his initial success in extending Bose's results and in realizing the consequences of what later became to be called Bose-Einstein statistics. We discuss Einstein's motivation for writing a non-combinatorial paper, partly in response to criticism by his friend Ehrenfest, and we paraphrase its content. Its arguments are based on Einstein's belief in the complete analogy between the thermodynamics of light quanta and of material particles and invoke considerations of adiabatic transformations as well as of dimensional analysis. These techniques were well-known to Einstein from earlier work on Wien's displacement law, Planck's radiation theory, and the specific heat of solids. We also investigate the possible role of Ehrenfest in the gestation of the theory.
- Autoren
- Enric Pérez
- Tilman Sauer
- Autoren-URL
- http://arxiv.org/abs/1004.5567v1
- Zeitschrift
- Archive for History of Exact Sciences
- Schlüsselwörter
- physics.hist-ph
- physics.hist-ph
- Notes
- 57 pp.
- Paginierung
- 561 - 612
- Datum der Veröffentlichung
- 2010
- Herausgeber URL
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00407-010-0066-x
- Datum der Datenerfassung
- 2010
- Datum, an dem der Datensatz öffentlich gemacht wurde
- 2010
- Titel
- Einstein's quantum theory of the monatomic ideal gas: non-statistical arguments for a new statistics
- Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
- 64
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