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Debye function

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In mathematics, the family of Debye functions is defined by

The functions are named in honor of Peter Debye, who came across this function (with n = 3) in 1912 when he analytically
computed the heat capacity of what is now called the Debye model.

Contents
1 Mathematical properties
1.1 Relation to other functions
1.2 Series Expansion
1.3 Limiting values
1.4 Derivative
2 Applications in solid-state physics
2.1 The Debye model
2.2 Internal energy and heat capacity
2.3 Mean squared displacement
3 References
4 Further reading
5 Implementations

Mathematical properties
Relation to other functions

The Debye functions are closely related to the Polylogarithm.

Series Expansion

According to,[1]

Limiting values

For :

For : is given by the Gamma function and the Riemann zeta function:

[2]

Derivative

The derivative obeys the relation


where is the Bernoulli function.

Applications in solid-state physics


The Debye model

The Debye model has a density of vibrational states

for

with the Debye frequency D.

Internal energy and heat capacity

Inserting g into the internal energy

with the BoseEinstein distribution

one obtains

The heat capacity is the derivative thereof.

Mean squared displacement

The intensity of X-ray diffraction or neutron diffraction at wavenumber q is given by the Debye-Waller factor or the Lamb-
Mssbauer factor. For isotropic systems it takes the form

).

In this expression, the mean squared displacement refers to just once Cartesian component ux of the vector u that describes
the displacement of atoms from their equilibrium positions. Assuming harmonicity and developing into normal modes,[3]
one obtains

Inserting the density of states from the Debye model, one obtains

References
1. Abramowitz, Milton; Stegun, Irene Ann, eds. (1983) [June 1964]. "Chapter 27" (http://www.math.sfu.ca/~cbm/aands/
page_998.htm). Handbook of Mathematical Functions with Formulas, Graphs, and Mathematical Tables. Applied
Mathematics Series. 55 (Ninth reprint with additional corrections of tenth original printing with corrections
(December 1972); first ed.). Washington D.C.; New York: United States Department of Commerce, National Bureau
of Standards; Dover Publications. p. 998. ISBN 978-0-486-61272-0. LCCN 64-60036 (https://lccn.loc.gov/64-
60036). MR 0167642 (https://www.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=0167642). LCCN 65-12253 (https://lccn.loc.gov/
65012253).
2. Gradshteyn, Izrail Solomonovich; Ryzhik, Iosif Moiseevich; Geronimus, Yuri Veniaminovich; Tseytlin, Michail
Yulyevich; Jeffrey, Alan (2015) [October 2014]. "3.411.". In Zwillinger, Daniel; Moll, Victor Hugo. Table of
Integrals, Series, and Products. Translated by Scripta Technica, Inc. (8 ed.). Academic Press, Inc. pp. 355ff. ISBN 0-
12-384933-0. LCCN 2014010276 (https://lccn.loc.gov/2014010276). ISBN 978-0-12-384933-5.
3. Ashcroft & Mermin 1976, App. L,

Further reading
Abramowitz, Milton; Stegun, Irene Ann, eds. (1983) [June 1964]. "Chapter 27". Handbook of Mathematical
Functions with Formulas, Graphs, and Mathematical Tables. Applied Mathematics Series. 55 (Ninth reprint with
additional corrections of tenth original printing with corrections (December 1972); first ed.). Washington D.C.; New
York: United States Department of Commerce, National Bureau of Standards; Dover Publications. p. 998. ISBN 978-
0-486-61272-0. LCCN 64-60036. MR 0167642. LCCN 65-12253.
"Debye function" entry in MathWorld, defines the Debye functions without prefactor n/xn

Implementations
Fortran 77 code by Allan MacLeod from Transactions on Mathematical Software
Fortran 90 version
C version of the GNU Scientific Library

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