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particle statistics

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see particle, statistics.

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Usage: uncountable

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Meaning 2

Any of certain theories, in classical physics or (particularly) quantum mechanics, that model the behaviour of collections of particles of identical type.

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Usage: uncountable

Qualifier: statistical mechanics; quantum mechanics; statistical mechanics; quantum mechanics

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  • 1990, Jurg Frohlich, Quantum Statistics and Locality, D. G. Caldi, George D. Mostow (editors), Proceedings of the Gibbs Symposium: Yale University, May 15-17, 1989, American Mathematical Society, American Institute of Physics, page 93, A choice of particle statistics in quantum mechanics is equivalent to choosing representations Un, of π1(Mn), for all n, in the quantization procedure described in §1.2; see (1.3). Thus, for a system of point particles in d > 3 dimensional, physical space, particle statistics is described by the symmetry character of wave functions under permutations of particle positions.

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