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    In particle physics, a fermion is a particle that follows Fermi–Dirac statistics. Fermions have a half-odd-integer spin (spin ⁠1/2⁠, spin ⁠3/2⁠, etc.)...
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    the system. Fermi–Dirac statistics is most commonly applied to electrons, a type of fermion with spin 1/2. A counterpart to Fermi–Dirac statistics is Bose–Einstein...
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    Among other discoveries, he formulated the Dirac equation in 1928, which describes the behaviour of fermions and predicted the existence of antimatter...
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  • In particle physics, the Dirac equation is a relativistic wave equation derived by British physicist Paul Dirac in 1928. In its free form, or including...
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    a Dirac fermion, which describes fermions that are not their own antiparticles. With the exception of neutrinos, all of the Standard Model fermions are...
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    A fermionic condensate (or Fermi–Dirac condensate) is a superfluid phase formed by fermionic particles at low temperatures. It is closely related to the...
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  • In mathematics and quantum mechanics, a Dirac operator is a differential operator that is a formal square root, or half-iterate, of a second-order operator...
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    being fermions, which have odd half-integer spin (1⁄2, 3⁄2, 5⁄2, ...). Every observed subatomic particle is either a boson or a fermion. Paul Dirac coined...
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  • discretized Dirac fermions in d {\displaystyle d} Euclidean dimensions, each fermionic field results in 2 d {\displaystyle 2^{d}} identical fermion species...
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    Spinor (redirect from Chiral fermion)
    p. 129 Pauli 1927. Dirac 1928. Juvet, G. (1930). "Opérateurs de Dirac et équations de Maxwell". Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici (in French). 2: 225–235...
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