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Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics

Classical model of bosons and fermions

G. Kaniadakis, P. Quarati

Published Jun 1, 1994• 90 citations
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Abstract

In a previous work [Phys. Rev. E 48, 4263 (1993)] we have derived a nonlinear one-dimensional kinetic equation for the distribution function of particles obeying an exclusion principle. In the present work, on the same grounds, we extend this kinetics to D-dimensional continuous or discrete space, in order to study the distribution function of particles obeying a generalized exclusion-inclusion Pauli principle (EIP). This exclusion or inclusion principle is introduced into the classical transition rates by means of an inhibition or an enhancement factor, which contains a parameter \ensuremath{\kappa}, whose values range between -1 and +1 and can balance the effect of the full or partial validity of EIP. After deriving the kinetic equation we obtain a general expression of the stationary distribution function, depending on the value we give to the parameter \ensuremath{\kappa}. When we limit ourselves to Brownian particles, we derive exactly for \ensuremath{\kappa}=-1 the Fermi-Dirac (FD) distribution, for \ensuremath{\kappa}=0 the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution, and for \ensuremath{\kappa}=1 the Bose-Einstein (BE) distribution. When \ensuremath{\kappa} assumes an intermediate value, except zero, between the extreme values -1 and +1, we obtain statistical distributions different from the FD and BE ones. We attribute to the parameter \ensuremath{\kappa} the meaning of the degree of indistinguishability of identical particles, the degree of antisymmetrization, or the symmetrization of the wave function of the particle system.

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10.1103/physreve.49.5103

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This chapter discusses the main aspects of the Boltzmann distribution which played an important role for the discovery of Planck’s law of the spectral radiance of the thermal black-body experiment and Einstein’s equipartition as a derivation of Planck’s law. This chapter introduces the concepts of microstate, microstate, statistical weight of the distribution in order to obtain the Boltzmann distribution of distinguished particles. In the next section, it is discussed the statistics of undistinguishable particles of fermions (electrons, protons, neutrons) known as Fermi-Dirac statistics which began with Fermi’s approach of monoatomic molecules of an ideal gas where he applied the concept of quantum numbers associated with each molecule and Pauli’s exclusion principle. Afterwards, it is shown how Dirac amplified Fermi statistical distribution to many-particle systems. Dirac also used Pauli’s exclusion principle in order to arrive at the concept of antisymmetrical eigenfunctions and their determinantal form which later became known as Slater’s determinant. (151 words).