Bose-Einstein statistics
noun plural but singular or plural in construction
variants
or less commonly Bose statistics
: 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
called also Einstein-Bose statistics
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