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Physical meaning of symmetric and antisymmetric wavefunction
Firstly, the question refers to the symmetry about particle exchange - the title is confusing, since there are many other important symmetries, starting with $\psi(\pm x)=\pm \psi(x)$, which has to do ...
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Physical meaning of symmetric and antisymmetric wavefunction
First of all, states of indistinguishable particles have to be either symmetric or antisymmetric with respect to a permutation $P$ of two particles, which is a parity operation $P^2 = \mathbb{I}$. If ...
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Do Helium-4 atoms behave like photons?
A helium 4 atom is a boson only if you are looking at it on a scale much larger that the radius of the atom. If you start looking closely you'll start to see it is a composite object made up from ...
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