Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-condensed-matter-physics-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2014/2/b/solution

Using gives the electron-acoustic recoil length
The temperature ratio therefore fixes
It follows that , and . Substitution gives
The resulting Fermi energy is about and the temperature ratio is indeed . These values follow from the supplied effective sound speed and free-electron/Debye approximations; they are not independent precision measurements of copper's parameters.

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