Doppler Shift of de Broglie Waves- Black body System of Fermions and Massive Bosons

Sanchari De, Somenath Chakrabarty A

Published Aug 14, 2014• 0 citations

Abstract

The Doppler shift of de Broglie wave is obtained for fermions and massive bosons using the conventional form of Lorentz transformations for momentum and energy of the particles. A formalism is developed to obtain the variation of wave length for de Broglie waves with temperature for individual particles using the classic idea of Wien in a many body Fermi gas or massive Bose gas.

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