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Photons in a permutation anti-symmetric state? and What would a quantum-statistic violation mean?. Inauguration Meeting Iceland, July 2007. Dmitry Budker. http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~budker. Support: N$F. Identical particles: the ultimate equality.
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Photons in a permutation anti-symmetric state?and What would a quantum-statistic violation mean? Inauguration Meeting Iceland, July 2007 Dmitry Budker http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~budker Support: N$F
Identical particles: the ultimate equality • Individualism: the ultimate diversity • Permutation symmetry postulate • Spin-Statistics Theorem (SST)
Prof. Richard P. Feynman(1918-1988) Feynman’s Lectures on Physics, V. 3:
Doesn’t go because no symmetric statefor two photons with J=1 Landau, L. D., Dokl. Akad. Nauk., USSR 60, 207-209 (1948) How? Landau-Yang Theorem!
S. N. Bose Landau-Yang theorem and the degenerate two-photon transition selection rule • L-Y: V(J=1) • Inverse L-Y: Nothing(J=0) + V(J=1) • Destructive interference of two quantum paths
1999 DeMille 1
Disturbing Questions • No consistent relativistic theory accommodating a statistics violation • How to compare with other experiments? (Z→γγ, …) • Constrains from lasers, BBR, static limit ? • Need a generalized E&M theory