title: Canonical and microcanonical calculations for fermi systems
abstract: Recursion relations are presented that allow exact calculation of canonical and microcanonical partition functions of degenerate Fermi systems, assuming no explicit two-body interactions. Calculations of the level density, sorted by angular momentum, are presented for 56Ni. The issue of treating unbound states is also addressed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics and Astronomy and National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA.
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authors.lastname: Pratt