Vol 5 - Landau Lifshitz Statistical Physics · Problem 50.P1

The Fermi and Bose Distributions

Physics — Landau & Lifshitz · oxygen-excited-electronic-state-free-energy

Problem

Determine the correction to the free energy for oxygen due to the first excited electronic state of the O2_2 molecule (see the last footnote). The temperature is large compared with the vibrational quantum, but small compared with the distance Δ\Delta between the ground state 3Σ{}^3\Sigma and the excited state 1Δ{}^1\Delta.

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