High and low temperature behavior of a quantum group fermion gas
Marcelo R. Ubriaco
Abstract
We consider the simplest SUq(2) invariant fermionic hamiltonian and calculate the low and high temperature behavior for the two distinct cases q> 1 and q < 1. For low temperatures we find that entropy values for the Fermi case are an upper bound for those corresponding to q ̸ = 1. At high temperatures we find that the sign of the second virial coefficient depends on q, and vanishes at q = 1.96. An important consequence of this fact is that the parameter q connects the fermionic and bosonic regions, showing therefore that SUq(2) fermions exhibit fractional statistics in three spatial dimensions.