particle statistics
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.82 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any of certain theories, in classical physics or (particularly) quantum mechanics, that model the behaviour of collections of particles of identical type.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "This circumstance, which is much different from classical particle statistics, reflects the way in which states are counted in Bose-Einstein statistics."
- "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."
- "The path dependence of the interchange is all important since it relates the quantum mechanical concept of particle statistics to the topology of the configuration space."
Usage
Phrases
Bose-Einstein statistics
classical statistics
Fermi–Dirac statistics
Maxwell-Boltzmann statistics
quantum statistics
Frequently Paired Words
Bose-Einstein statistics
classical statistics
Fermi–Dirac statistics
Maxwell-Boltzmann statistics
quantum statistics