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Testing the Symmetrization Postulate of Quantum Mechanics and the Spin‐Statistics Connection
Author(s) -
Tino Guglielmo M.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
fortschritte der physik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.469
H-Index - 71
eISSN - 1521-3978
pISSN - 0015-8208
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1521-3978(200005)48:5/7<537::aid-prop537>3.0.co;2-c
Subject(s) - symmetrization , connection (principal bundle) , mathematics , spin (aerodynamics) , quantum mechanics , physics , statistical physics , statistics , classical mechanics , mathematical analysis , geometry , thermodynamics
Recent experimental tests of the symmetrization postulate of quantum mechanics are discussed. It is shown that in a strict sense these experiments cannot test the validity of the symmetrization postulate, but in most cases do test the spin‐statistics connection. An experiment is proposed that would allow to search for possible violations of the symmetrization postulate.