Bose-Einstein statistics

US:USA pronunciation: respellingUSA pronunciation: respelling(bōs′īn′stīn)


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Bose′-Ein′stein statis′tics  (bōs′īn′stīn),USA pronunciation [Physics.]
  1. Physicsquantum 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.
  • named after south, southern. north, northern. Bose (see boson) and Albert Einstein 1925–30

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
Bose-Einstein statistics
  1. (functioning as singular) 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
'Bose-Einstein statistics' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Bose - Fermi-Dirac statistics - boson - quantum statistics

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