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Bose-Einstein statistics

plural noun

, Physics.
  1. quantum statistics for particles not obeying the exclusion principle, based on the assumption that in a given physical system consisting of indistinguishable particles and regions, all distinguishable arrangements of the particles have equal probability.


Bose-Einstein statistics

plural noun

  1. functioning as singular physics the branch of quantum statistics applied to systems of particles of zero or integral spin that do not obey the exclusion principle Compare Fermi-Dirac statistics
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Bose-Einstein statistics

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Origin of Bose-Einstein statistics1

1925–30; named after S. N. Bose ( boson ) and Albert Einstein

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