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On quantum statistics for ensembles with a finite number of particles

E. D. Trifonov

Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia

Abstract: The well-known Bose–Einstein and Fermi–Dirac quantum distributions can be considered as stationary solutions of kinetic equations for the mean occupation numbers in an ideal gas of an arbitrary finite number of identical particles.

PACS: 05.30.Jp, 71.10.Ca

Received: March 16, 2010
Revised: May 27, 2011

DOI: 10.3367/UFNr.0181.201107d.0747

 English version: Physics–Uspekhi, 2011, 54:7, 723–727

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