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Discovered by Kamerlingh-Onnes in 1911, superconductivity in metals was a peculiar phenomenon, but is now known as due to phase transition of conduction electrons in periodic lattice at low temperatures. Related to lattice excitations, the transition is a basic occurrence in many-electron systems in crystals. In this chapter, we discuss statistical properties of many-phonon and many-electron systems.
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Fujimoto, M. (2013). Phonon and Electron Statistics in Metals. In: Thermodynamics of Crystalline States. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5085-6_12
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