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As we have seen in Chap. 6, identical particles are indistinguishable, and if their spin is a half-integer multiple of \(\hslash \), they are called fermions. They are then described by antisymmetric wave functions. In what follows we shall consider the statistical problem of the properties of a large number of electrons and its relation with some properties of solid bodies.
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R.K. Pathria, Statistical Mechanics, 2nd edn. (Elsevier, Oxford, 2006). This book deals with quantum statistics at an advanced level
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Chaichian, M., Rojas, H.P., Tureanu, A. (2014). Fermi–Dirac and Bose–Einstein Statistics. In: Basic Concepts in Physics. Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19598-3_8
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