The Story of Bose, Photon Spin and Indistinguishability
History and Philosophy of Physics
2023-08-21 v1 Statistical Mechanics
High Energy Physics - Theory
Atomic Physics
Quantum Physics
Abstract
As we approach the centenary of the discovery of quantum statistics in 1924, it is important to revisit Bose's original derivation of Planck's law usually ignored in most standard presentations of Bose-Einstein statistics. It introduced not only the novel concept of the indistinguishability of photons but also of their intrinsic spin, a fact unknown to most physicists.
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@article{arxiv.2308.01909,
title = {The Story of Bose, Photon Spin and Indistinguishability},
author = {Partha Ghose},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.01909},
year = {2023}
}
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