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Chapter 2 of Statistical Physics by David Tong. Sections 2.1–2.2 give ideal classical partition functions; section 2.5 gives the density virial expansion and Mayer f-function. No separately contributed chapter author is established.
Chapter 3 of Statistical Physics by David Tong. Section 3.5 gives Bose occupation and condensation, while sections 3.6.2–3.6.4 give the low-temperature Fermi gas and Sommerfeld expansion. The harmonic-trap state-counting integral in the solution is derived independently. No separately contributed chapter author is established.
Chapter 5 of Statistical Physics by David Tong. Sections 5.4.1–5.4.2: order-parameter free energy, symmetry, continuous and first-order Landau transitions. No separately contributed chapter author is established.
Author-hosted lecture notes on nonequilibrium statistical mechanics. The site records copyright 2012; no separate publication or revision date is assigned here. No separately contributed chapter author is established.
Chapter 3 of Kinetic Theory by David Tong. Sections 3.1–3.2, printed pages 53–64: Langevin dynamics, Einstein relation (3.12), Gaussian diffusion and the Fokker-Planck equation. Whole-work author credit applies. No separately contributed chapter author is established.
Atomic interferometry using stimulated Raman transitions by Mark Kasevich and Steven Chu by
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Primary experiment, Physical Review Letters 67, pp. 181–184 (1991). The publisher abstract describes a sodium matter-wave interferometer based on the mechanical effects of stimulated Raman transitions.
Manipulating Atoms with Photons by Claude Cohen-Tannoudji by
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Authored Nobel lecture, 8 December 1997. Section 2 discusses sub-Doppler cooling and the Sisyphus mechanism. The public PDF link is www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2018/06/cohen-tannoudji-lecture.pdf
Bound Electron Pairs in a Degenerate Fermi Gas by Leon Neil Cooper by
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Physical Review 104, 1189–1190 (1956). The original two-added-electron bound-state argument in a degenerate Fermi sea. doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.104.1189
Shell Filling and Spin Effects in a Few Electron Quantum Dot by S. Tarucha and others by
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Physical Review Letters 77, 3613–3616 (1996). Original gate- and magnetic-field-dependent transport measurements in vertical dots. doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.77.3613 web.physics.rutgers.edu/grad/682/papers/tarucha_shell_structure.pdf
Spin Density Waves in an Electron Gas by A. W. Overhauser by
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Physical Review 128, 1437–1452 (1962). Original unrestricted Hartree-Fock spin-density-wave instability result. doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.128.1437
Ground State of the Electron Gas by a Stochastic Method by D. M. Ceperley and B. J. Alder by
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Physical Review Letters 45, 566–569 (1980). Original Quantum Monte Carlo calculation of electron-gas correlation energies and competing phases. doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.45.566 escholarship.org/uc/item/2d7023jm
International Tables for Crystallography, Volume A: Space-group symmetry by
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Second online edition (2016), International Union of crystallography. Authoritative tables of crystallographic point groups and space groups. it.iucr.org/Ac/ doi.org/10.1107/97809553602060000114
Lecture notes on the formation and early evolution of planetary systems by Philip J. Armitage by
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The cited version has explicit sections on disk structure and dispersal, condensation, radial drift, gravitational focusing, isolation and giant-planet formation. Version and section locators are specified when cited; later versions have different pagination.
The false positive rate of Kepler and the occurrence of planets by François Fressin and others by
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The study models false positives and detection recovery to infer exoplanet occurrence rates. Section VI and Figure 7 discuss average numbers per star; these must not be confused with the fraction of stars hosting at least one planet. It is used as independent methodological evidence, not an unverified attribution of the exam's figure.
A Plateau in the Planet Population Below Twice the Size of Earth by Erik A. Petigura and others by
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Oligarchic Growth of Protoplanets by Eiichiro Kokubo and Shigeru Ida by
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Icarus 131, 171–178. The primary abstract describes three-dimensional simulations that produce comparable-mass embryos amid smaller planetesimals, and reports orbital spacing typically about ten individual Hill radii.
Relativistic corrections to the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect by A. D. Challinor and A. N. Lasenby by
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Primary theoretical research. Submitted in 1997; published in the Astrophysical Journal in 1998, DOI doi.org/10.1086/305623. The abstract explicitly gives the Rayleigh-Jeans decrement as times relativistic corrections.
The Temperature of the Cosmic Microwave Background by Dale J. Fixsen by
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Astrophysical Journal 707, 916–920 (2009). Primary recalibration of FIRAS using WMAP and synthesis of temperature measurements. The abstract gives the literature-combined temperature K.
Ninth Synthesis Imaging Summer School, Socorro, 15–22 June 2004. Slides 5–12 and 19–20 define antenna gain, SEFD, real-component baseline noise and single-polarization synthesis-image sensitivity. Four PDF pages contain multiple numbered slides.
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