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Fermi-Dirac statistics en · NOUN

Etymology

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

Meanings

  1. (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.