De Broglie thermal wavelength

The de Broglie thermal wavelength is defined as

$\Lambda ={\sqrt {\frac {h^{2}}{2\pi mk_{B}T}}}$

where

• h is the Planck constant
• m is the mass
• $k_{B}$ is the Boltzmann constant
• T is the temperature.

References

Related reading

• Zijun Yan, "General thermal wavelength and its applications", Eur. J. Phys. 21 pp. 625-631 (2000)