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I'm starting out on DFT right now. I'm an experimental Physics student, so I'm not very familiar with theories. Can you recommend any good textbooks or resources that I can utilize for my study?? Thanks in advance.

That's right! It's about the electrons! I'm an idiot. Thanks a lot ! I don't really know the difference between a quantum gas and a classical gas, but I guess I can google it !

I don't understand the notation you're using to describe the formulas. Maybe my firefox messed up the formulas.

I was already aware of the fact that a metal will evaporate even below Fermi temperature. But a metal in a form of gas would still be a metal, and now we can treat the metal as a gas. I'm wondering why it matters to be at that specific temperature even tho the metal would already be a gas at the...

Thanks for your response but a simple formula like that means nothing to me when there is a specific parameter with no explanation given on what it is or what it does. What happens to the metal once it reaches to Fermi Temperature, is my question.

I get that in a single particle of a metal, Fermi energy is defined at T = 0 as the maximum energy that electrons can reach. I get that, but my book defines this concept called Fermi Temperature. Is Fermi Temperature the temperature where electrons can reach the next empty energy band in...