Fermi-Dirac statistics

noun

variants or less commonly Fermi statistics

: quantum-mechanical statistics according to which subatomic particles of a given class (as electrons, protons, and neutrons) have a quantum-mechanical symmetry that makes it impossible for more than one particle to occupy any particular quantum-mechanical state compare bose-einstein statistics

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