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Fermi-Dirac statistics

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Etymology

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Named after Enrico Fermi and Paul Dirac, who derived the distribution independently in 1926.

Noun

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Fermi-Dirac statistics (uncountable)

  1. A kind of quantum statistics that applies to the physics of a system consisting of many noninteracting identical particles that obey the Pauli exclusion principle.