Derivation of Bose-Einstein statistics from the uncertainty principle

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Main Author: Tangney, Paul
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Published: 2023
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contents The microstate of any degree of freedom of any classical dynamical system can be represented by a point in its two dimensional phase space. Since infinitely precise measurements are impossible, a measurement can, at best, constrain the location of this point to a region of phase space whose area is finite. This paper explores the implications of assuming that this finite area is bounded from below. I prove that if the same lower bound applied to every degree of freedom of a sufficiently cold classical dynamical system, the distribution of the system's energy among its degrees of freedom would be a Bose-Einstein distribution.
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spellingShingle Derivation of Bose-Einstein statistics from the uncertainty principle
Tangney, Paul
Statistical Mechanics
Quantum Physics
The microstate of any degree of freedom of any classical dynamical system can be represented by a point in its two dimensional phase space. Since infinitely precise measurements are impossible, a measurement can, at best, constrain the location of this point to a region of phase space whose area is finite. This paper explores the implications of assuming that this finite area is bounded from below. I prove that if the same lower bound applied to every degree of freedom of a sufficiently cold classical dynamical system, the distribution of the system's energy among its degrees of freedom would be a Bose-Einstein distribution.
title Derivation of Bose-Einstein statistics from the uncertainty principle
topic Statistical Mechanics
Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.02069