Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Electron liquid


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The result was delete. Killiondude (talk) 05:15, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

Electron liquid

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The article is not clear. The terms like jellium, Thomas-Fermi, free electron model and Fermi liquid have already existing articles. Most of the content in the article is covered in Jellium and seems like a rephrasing. Additionally, no sources. MaoGo (talk) 09:10, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete. Reads like an undergrad essay. No sources. Xxanthippe (talk) 09:29, 16 April 2018 (UTC).
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions. North America1000 10:29, 16 April 2018 (UTC)


 * comment A quick survey does not convince me that this and jellium are the same thing, and I have a certain mistrust of both articles as a result. It's perfectly clear that people publish plenty on on electron liquid behavior. Possibly someone knowledgeable could WP:TNT this and start over. Mangoe (talk) 12:51, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
 * We could wait for someone more involved with this kind of terms. For what I've seen, papers refer to EL to discuss a gas with interactions, which usually leads to jellium or Fermi liquid theory (or some other specific model). What I meant in the lead is that Jellium article seems to discuss the same things as the current EL article. --MaoGo (talk) 12:56, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Looking at the GScholar hits, I'm questioning whether the jellium article should be where this is discussed. If you search for both terms, you only get about 750 hits, but "jellium" separately produces some 22k hits, and these seem to be specifically about metals, whereas "electron liquid" produces around 11k hits, and those seem to be about electrons in semiconductors as well as in metals. At any rate they seem to be related but distinct ideas. Mangoe (talk) 16:48, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Sure. But the current article is not clear about the topic and its definition. If someone knows a clear distinction I'm also ok with the TNT. --MaoGo (talk) 11:17, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Jellium is a pretty standard term. Take for example the Marder, Condensed Matter: . --MaoGo (talk) 11:29, 17 April 2018 (UTC)


 * delete for reasons mentioned by MaoGo. --Steve (talk) 13:43, 16 April 2018 (UTC)


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