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====== Spin-Statistics Theorem ====== | ====== Spin-Statistics Theorem ====== | ||
- | <tabbox Why is it interesting?> | + | |
- | The spin-statistics theorem tells us that there can be never two identical fermions in the same state (they anticommute), while there can be arbitrarily many identical bosons. | + | <tabbox Intuitive> |
- | <tabbox Layman> | + | |
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- | <tabbox Student> | + | <tabbox Concrete> |
+ | <diagram> | ||
+ | | AA|| BB |AA=particles with half-integer spin|BB=particles with integer spin | ||
+ | | |!@4| | | | !@4| | | ||
+ | | AA|| BB |AA=Fermi-Dirac statistics|BB=Bose-Einstein statistics | ||
+ | </diagram> | ||
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* http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/spin_stat.html | * http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/spin_stat.html | ||
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* A nice book on the topic is Pauli And The Spin-Statistics Theorem by Ian Duck, E.C.G. Sudarshan | * A nice book on the topic is Pauli And The Spin-Statistics Theorem by Ian Duck, E.C.G. Sudarshan | ||
- | <tabbox Researcher> | + | <tabbox Abstract> |
* The standard reference is the book PCT, Spin and Statistics, and All That by Raymond F. Streater, | * The standard reference is the book PCT, Spin and Statistics, and All That by Raymond F. Streater, | ||
- | --> Common Question 1# | + | <tabbox Why is it interesting?> |
+ | The spin-statistics theorem tells us that there can be never two identical fermions in the same state (they anticommute), while there can be arbitrarily many identical bosons. | ||
+ | <tabbox FAQ> | ||
- | + | -->Why are anticommutators needed in quantization of Dirac fields?# | |
+ | see https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/17893/why-are-anticommutators-needed-in-quantization-of-dirac-fields | ||
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- | <tabbox Examples> | ||
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- | <tabbox History> | ||
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