“bose-einstein”

The following 2 entries include the term bose-einstein.

Bose-Einstein condensate

noun

: a state of matter that occurs when a set of atoms is cooled almost to absolute zero in which a statistical description of the positions of the atoms implies that they physically overlap each other and in effect form a single atom

Bose-Einstein statistics

noun plural but singular or plural in construction

: quantum-mechanical statistics according to which subatomic particles of a given class (such 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 compare fermi-dirac statistics


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