4. Thermal smearing is too significant and we can not accurately approximate the fraction of the excited electron through triangles anymore. Thus the Sommerfeld expansion breaks down.
4. Thermal smearing is too significant and we can not accurately approximate the fraction of the excited electron with triangles anymore. Thus the Sommerfeld expansion breaks down.
3. $g(\epsilon)$ vs $\epsilon$ is a linear plot. Here, the region marked by $-k_B T$ is a triangle whose area gives the number of electrons that can be excited: