Fermi-Dirac statistics
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Named after Enrico Fermi and Paul Dirac, who derived the distribution independently in 1926.
Noun
[edit]Fermi-Dirac statistics (uncountable)
- 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.