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fermion

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7 lettersPronunciation /ˈfɜːmɪɒn/Part of speech nounSorted efimnorStarts with FEnds with N0 clues
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  1. any particle that obeys Fermi-Dirac statistics and is subject to the Pauli exclusion principle

Word origin

From Fermi + -on. Named after Italian-American physicist Enrico Fermi. Coined by English physicist Paul Dirac in 1945 in a lecture titled "Developments in Atomic Theory".

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  • The fermions treated by the Standard Model are the (composite) baryons and the (elementary) leptons and quarks.
  • According to the spin–statistics theorem, the wavefunction of a system of identical fermions (particles of half-integer spin) is antisymmetric under the operation of swapping any two particles.
  • A remarkable feature of lattice regularization is the appearance of several fermion species per fermion field in the lattice action.

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