noun
(physics) statistical law obeyed by a system of particles whose wave function is not changed when two particles are interchanged (the Pauli exclusion principle does not apply)
• Topics: ↑physics, ↑natural philosophy
• Hypernyms: ↑law, ↑law of nature
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\\ˈbōˈsīnzˌ]tīn-, -īnˌs] sometimes -īnˌsh]\ noun plural but singular or plural in construction also bose statistics \\ˈbos-\Usage: usually capitalized B&E
Etymology: after Satyendra Nath Bose b1894 Indian physicist and Albert Einstein died 1955 American physicist born in Germany
: quantum-mechanical statistics according to which subatomic particles of a given class (as photons and pi-mesons) have a quantum-mechanical symmetry that in cases of thermal equilibrium tends to cause an accumulation of many particles of the same kind in each of the possible low-energy quantum-mechanical states — called also Einstein-Bose statistics; compare fermi-dirac statistics
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/bohs"uyn"stuyn/, Physics.
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.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.