Fermi gas
Noun
Meaning
Fermi gas (plural Fermi gases)
(physics) A gas composed of a large number of fermions.
Examples
A series of papers published between 1931 and 1935 had its beginning on a trip from India to England in 1930, where the Indian physicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar worked on the calculation of the statistics of a degenerate Fermi gas.
This Fermi gas model was then used by the British physicist Edmund Clifton Stoner in 1929 to calculate the relationship among the mass, radius, and density of white dwarfs, assuming them to be homogeneous spheres.
In this sense, the superconductivity is often called the superfluidity of Fermi gas.