{"title":"Quantum statistics","authors":"I. Kenyon","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198808350.003.0003","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Indistinguishability of like particles, and the fermion and boson exchange symmetries discussed.Pauli exclusion principle and features of multi-electron atoms, including selection rules are discussed. Degeneracy pressure and the formation of compact stellar objects is analysed. Quantum exchange force between electrons and its contribution to ferromagnetism is outlined. Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein statistics, includng the chemical potential are derived. The conditions for Bose-Einstein condensation are deduced; condensates and their stability are considered.","PeriodicalId":165376,"journal":{"name":"Quantum 20/20","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Quantum 20/20","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198808350.003.0003","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Indistinguishability of like particles, and the fermion and boson exchange symmetries discussed.Pauli exclusion principle and features of multi-electron atoms, including selection rules are discussed. Degeneracy pressure and the formation of compact stellar objects is analysed. Quantum exchange force between electrons and its contribution to ferromagnetism is outlined. Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein statistics, includng the chemical potential are derived. The conditions for Bose-Einstein condensation are deduced; condensates and their stability are considered.