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.

Layman

Student

• The spin-statistics connection: Some pedagogical remarks in response to Neuenschwander’s question by A. S. Wightman
• A nice book on the topic is Pauli And The Spin-Statistics Theorem by Ian Duck, E.C.G. Sudarshan

Researcher

• The standard reference is the book PCT, Spin and Statistics, and All That by Raymond F. Streater,

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Examples

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