quantum statistics

American  

noun

Physics, Chemistry.

1. the branch of statistical mechanics that incorporates quantum mechanics.

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quantum statistics British  

noun

1. (functioning as singular) physics statistics concerned with the distribution of a number of identical elementary particles, atoms, ions, or molecules among possible quantum states

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quantum statistics Scientific  

1. Any of various kinds of statistical mechanics that assume quantum mechanical behavior of particles.

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Etymology

Origin of quantum statistics

First recorded in 1930–35

Example Sentences

Einstein immediately recognized the implication of Bose’s quantum statistics.

From Salon

The work was revolutionary, and would establish the area of quantum statistics.

From Scientific American

Together, the duo laid the foundations of quantum statistics and predicted the existence of undiscovered fundamental particles.

From Nature

“Quantum particles have all sorts of problems about their individuality: entangled states, quantum statistics. Then in general relativity, spacetime points don’t seem to be the ultimate reality; the reality is something more like a metric field. In both cases we are pushed away from an ontology ac- cording to which you drill down and find little things that everything is built of.”

From Scientific American

Not only were quantum statistics weird, but they made it pretty much impossible to think of particles as “things.”

From Scientific American