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noun
A kind of quantum statistics that applies to the physics of a system consisting of many noninteracting identical particles that obey the Pauli exclusion principle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
(physics) law obeyed by a systems of particles whose wave function changes when two particles are interchanged (the Pauli exclusion principle applies)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: law, law of nature
History
Named after Enrico Fermi and Paul Dirac, who derived the distribution independently in 1926.
