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Fermi-Dirac statistics

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Fermi-Dirac statistics
n
(Physics / General Physics) Physics the branch of quantum statistics used to calculate the permitted energy arrangements of the particles in a system in terms of the exclusion principle Compare Bose-Einstein statistics
[named after Enrico Fermi (1901-54), Italian nuclear physicist and Paul Dirac (1902-84), English physicist]
Fermi-Dirac statistics
See under statistical mechanics.
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Noun1.Fermi-Dirac statistics - (physics) law obeyed by a systems of particles whose wave function changes when two particles are interchanged (the Pauli exclusion principle applies)
law of nature, law - a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature; "the laws of thermodynamics"
natural philosophy, physics - the science of matter and energy and their interactions; "his favorite subject was physics"
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