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On the relation between momentum uncertainty and thermal wavelength

Quantum Physics 2024-07-10 v1 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

For quantum particles in a Boltzmann state, we derive an inequality between momentum uncertainty Δp\Delta p and thermal de Broglie wavelength λth\lambda_{\rm th}, expressed as Δp2π/λth\Delta p \geq \sqrt{2\pi}\hbar/\lambda_{\rm th}, as a corollary of the Boltzmann lower bound for the Heisenberg uncertainty product proposed in the previous work [EPL, 143, 20001 (2023)]

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@article{arxiv.2407.06715,
  title  = {On the relation between momentum uncertainty and thermal wavelength},
  author = {Zi-Fan Zhu and Yao Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.06715},
  year   = {2024}
}

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