bose-einstein statistics

Bose-Einstein statistics Word Origin plural noun Physics.

1. quantum statistics for particles not obeying the exclusion principle, based on the assumption that in a given physical system consisting of indistinguishable particles and regions, all distinguishable arrangements of the particles have equal probability.

Origin of Bose-Einstein statistics 1925–30; named after S. N. Bose (see boson) and Albert Einstein British Dictionary definitions for bose-einstein statistics Bose-Einstein statistics pl n

1. (functioning as singular) physics the branch of quantum statistics applied to systems of particles of zero or integral spin that do not obey the exclusion principleCompare Fermi-Dirac statistics

bose-einstein statistics in Science Bose-Einstein statistics

1. See under statistical mechanics.