Individual Particles, Properties and Quantum Statistics

Matteo Morganti (1)

1 IHPST - Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques

It is often held that the peculiar statistical behaviour of quantum particles is due to their non-individuality. In this paper, a new suggestion is put forward: quantum particles are individuals, and the distinctive features of quantum statistics are determined solely by the fact that all the properties it describes are emergent relations.

Mots clés: quantum mechanics

Domaines: Histoire, Philosophie et Sociologie des sciences

Matteo Morganti. Individual Particles, Properties and Quantum Statistics. EPSA 2007, Nov 2007, Madrid, France. pp.175-185, ⟨10.1007/978-90-481-3252-2_17⟩. ⟨halshs-00791000⟩