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 Albert Einstein - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Einstein also assisted Erwin Schrödinger in the development of the quantum Boltzmann distribution, a mixed classical and quantum mechanical gas model although he realized that this was less significant than the Bose-Einstein model and declined to have his name included on the paper.
Einstein began to form a generalized theory of gravitation with the Universal Law of Gravitation and the electromagnetic force in his first attempt to demonstrate the unification and simplification of the fundamental forces.
Einstein divorced Mileva on February 14, 1919, and married his cousin Elsa Löwenthal (born Einstein: Löwenthal was the surname of her first husband, Max) on June 2, 1919.
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 Bose-Einstein statistics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
B-E statistics was introduced for photons in 1920 by Bose and generalized to atoms by Einstein in 1924.
In statistical mechanics, Bose-Einstein statistics determines the statistical distribution of identical indistinguishable bosons over the energy states in thermal equilibrium.
Bose-Einstein (or B-E) statistics are closely related to Maxwell-Boltzmann statistics (M-B) and Fermi-Dirac statistics (F-D).
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 Bose-Einstein condensate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The result of the efforts of Bose and Einstein is the concept of a Bose gas, governed by the Bose-Einstein statistics, which describes the statistical distribution of certain types of identical particles now known as bosons.
This phenomenon was predicted in the 1920s by Satyendra Nath Bose and Albert Einstein, based on Bose's work on the statistical mechanics of photons, which was then formalized and generalized by Einstein.
Einstein speculated that cooling bosonic atoms to a very low temperature would cause them to fall (or "condense") into the lowest accessible quantum state, resulting in a new form of matter.
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 AllRefer.com - statistical mechanics (Physics) - Encyclopedia
In its modern form, statistical mechanics recognizes three broad types of systems: those that obey Maxwell-Boltzmann statistics, those that obey Bose-Einstein statistics, and those that obey Fermi-Dirac statistics.
Photons, for instance, are bosons, and so the study of electromagnetic radiation, such as the radiation of a black body involves the use of Bose-Einstein statistics.
Maxwell-Boltzmann statistics apply to systems of classical particles, such as the atmosphere, in which considerations from the quantum theory are small enough that they may be ignored.
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 Bose-Einstein condensate
Einstein formalized and generalized these ideas and the result of their efforts is the so called Bose Einstein statistics.
Einstein also applied the statistics to atoms instead of photons, and discovered that at a certain very low temperature, all of the atoms tend to drop into the lowest accessible energy level.
This is the description of the statistics of identical particles that don't mind sharing a quantum energy level with each other (as opposed to Fermi Dirac statistics which describe identical particles of which you can only put one in each energy level).
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 Bose
Bose published on statistical mechanics leading to the Einstein-Bose statistics.
Einstein extended Bose's treatment to material particles whose number is conserved and published several papers on this extension.
Bose was appointed as a Reader in physics at the University of Dacca in 1921 and taught there until 1945, being a professor and head of the physics department from 1927.
www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk /~history/Mathematicians/Bose.html   (890 words)

  
 J.C. Bose: 60 GHz in the 1890s
Bose noted that the junction does not obey Ohm's law, and that there is a knee in the curve at approximately 0.45 volts; the junction becomes most effective at detection of short wavelength radiation when the corresponding bias voltage is applied.
Bose was able to measure the wavelength of his radiation with a reflecting diffraction grating made of metal strips [7].
Bose's experiments were carried out at the Presidency College in Calcutta, although for demonstrations he developed a compact portable version of the equipment, including transmitter, receiver and various microwave components.
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 No. 1893: Satyendranath Bose
f you ever studied quantum mechanics, you know about Bose-Einstein statistics.
Bose had shown how Planck's and Einstein's work were consistent with one another.
Einstein carried on a vast correspondence with the whole spec-trum of brilliance to crankery.
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 Reluctant Father
Einstein publishes Satyendra Nath Bose's work on black-body radiation,developing so-called quantum statistics for one class of particles (such as photons).
Einstein's creation of quantum statistics was inspired by a letter he received in June 1924 from a then unknown young Indian physicist named Satyendra Nath Bose.
Albert Einstein's equations of gravity are the foundation of the modern view of black holes; ironically, he used the equations in trying to prove these objects cannot exist.
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 CERN Courier - Bose-Einstein condensation r - IOP Publishing - article
A "boson" is a particle of integer spin that obeys Bose-Einstein statistics and is the counterpart of a "fermion", which is a particle of half-integer spin that obeys Fermi-Dirac statistics.
Thus was born the concept of "Bose-Einstein" statistics for quanta ("bosons") carrying an integer value of intrinsic angular momentum (spin).
In 1924 Satyendra Nath Bose from Dacca University, in what was then India, wrote to Einstein asking for his help in getting a paper published.
www.cerncourier.com /main/article/41/10/17   (1452 words)

  
 Calcuttaweb - People : Satyendra Nath Bose
Bose felt it would be more appropriate to meet the great scientist Einstein and discuss the paper with him than to correspond with him.
Bose is the author of 'Light Quanta Statistics', 'Affine Connection Co-effcients' and other works of science.
Bose served in Dacca University nearly twenty-five years as Professor teacher he was admired by his students was friendly and helpful to his colleagues.
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 ScienceWeek
Bose-Einstein statistics is the statistical mechanics of a system of indistinguishable particles for which there is no restriction on the number of particles that may simultaneously exist in the same quantum energy state.
Einstein developed the idea to apply to other kinds of particle, not just to a 'gas' of photons, which is why this approach is usually referred to as 'Bose-Einstein statistics'.
Quantum statistics, in turn, takes one of two forms, depending on distribution constraints: Fermi-Dirac statistics or Bose-Einstein statistics.
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 Bose-Einstein statistics --  Encyclopædia Britannica
The aggregation of particles in the same state, which is characteristic of particles obeying Bose-Einstein statistics, accounts for the cohesive streaming of laser light and the frictionless creeping of superfluid helium.
Indian mathematician and physicist noted for his collaboration with Albert Einstein in developing a theory regarding the gaslike qualities of electromagnetic radiation (see Bose-Einstein statistics).
in quantum mechanics, fundamental mathematical proof that subatomic particles having integral values of spin (such as photons and helium-4 atoms) must be described by Bose-Einstein statistics (q.v.) and that subatomic particles having half-integral values of spin (such as electrons and protons) must be described by Fermi-Dirac statistics (q.v.).
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 Bose-Einstein
Using the particle picture of Einstein, Bose was able to derive the radiation formula by systematically developing a statistics of massless particles without the constraint of particle number conservation.
The Bose-Einstein statistics was not completely without troubles, because not all the particles obey this statistics.
Einstein was so happy with Bose's work that he translated the manuscript into German and arranged its publication in Zeitschrift f.
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 informationsphere.com: Bose-Einstein Statistics
Statistical law obeyed by a system of particles whose wave function is not changed when two particles are interchanged (the Pauli exclusion principle does not apply).
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 Bose-Einstein correlations - an introduction
Dirac invented the name bosons for such particles, and the statistics got the name of Bose-Einstein statistics.
The second kind of statistics was first studied in 1921 by indian mathematician and physicist Satyendra Nath Bose in a paper on the statistics of photons.
Considering identical and indistinguishable particles, the theory of quantum statistics differentiates two kinds of particles, according to the way in which they may be distributed among the available wave functions associated with each energy state.
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 Chapter 9.
For Bose-Einstein statistics the normalization of the distribution is equivalent to the determination of the chemical potential.
Photons are bosons, so they obey Bose-Einstein statistics.
Another application of Bose-Einstein statistics is the study of lattice vibrations.
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 Einstein/Boise Theory
The ending-up-in-one-situation is called a ``Bose condensation'', and it makes the news because it surprises human beings, whose intuition is to always see Boltzmann statistics.
All objects you see around you follow Bolzmann statistics, because even if you can't tell them apart by looking at them, you can always tell them apart by discovering their history, which will be unique for each object.
These atoms are said to follow Fermi-Dirac statistics.
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 Boson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bosons, named after Satyendra Nath Bose, are particles which form totally-symmetric composite quantum states.
The spin-statistics theorem states that bosons have integer spin.
particle in a box, and follow the Maxwell-Boltzmann Statistics.
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 Ideal Bose gas
Bose-Einstein statistics and bosons are called after Bose as well.
Einstein adopted the idea, extended on atoms and predicted the existence of phenomena called later as Bose-Einstein condensate.
Satyendra Nath Bose (January 1, 1894 - February 4, 1974) was an Indian physicist specializing in mathematical physics.
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 Bose gas
It is composed of bosons, which have an integral value of spin, and obey Bose-Einstein statistics.
The statistical mechanics of bosons were developed by Satyendra Nath Bose for photons, and extended to massive particles by Albert Einstein who realized that an ideal gas of bosons would form a condensate at a low enough temperature, unlike a classical ideal gas.
The problem with this continuum approximation for a Bose gas is that the ground state has been effectively ignored, giving a degeneracy of zero for zero energy.
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 BEC - What is it and where did the idea come from?
We now call these rules "Bose statistics" (or sometimes "Bose-Einstein statistics").
Bose had trouble getting people to believe him and to publish his ideas in the scientific magazines of the day, so he sent them to Einstein.
Satyendra Nath Bose was studying the new idea (at that time) that the light came in little discrete packets (we now call these "quanta" or "photons").
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 Boson
Bosons are subatomic particles that possess integer spin (i.e., angular momentum in integer units.) and are governed by Bose-Einstein statistics.
In Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein statistics "y" is a function of temperature and particle concentration,.
In 1924, Satyendra Nath Bose (1894-1974) published a paper "Planck's Law and the Hypothesis of Light Quanta" which led Albert Einstein (1879-1955) to seek him out for collaboration in developing a theory regarding the gas like qualities of electromagnetic radiation.
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 Bose-Einstein statistics- WordWeb dictionary definition
(physics) statistical law obeyed by a system of particles whose wave function is not changed when two particles are interchanged (the Pauli exclusion principle does not apply)
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 Profile of the month
Bose also published on statistical mechanics leading to the Einstein-Bose statistics.
Einstein generalized it to the counting of states of atoms, and predicted the phenomena of Bose-Einstein condensation, which has now been experimentally confirmed.
Einstein, who saw at once that Bose had removed a major objection against light quanta, enthusiastically endorsed his work.
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 Bose Statistics
Einstein discovered that the particle number conservation of trapped gas of bosons leads to a very remarkable effect: When the gas is cooled below a certain temperature, the bosons begin to "condense" in the lowest energy state like water vapour condenses to water drops below temperatures of 100°C. This phenomenon is known as "Bose-Einstein condensation".
Particles behaving in accordance to Bose's statistics are today called bosons (in contrast to fermions, which are described by "Fermi-Dirac statistics").
Albert Einstein was fascinated by this idea and applied it to atoms.
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 Spin classification of particles
In 1924 Einstein pointed out that bosons could "condense" in unlimited numbers into a single ground state since they are governed by Bose-Einstein statistics and not constrained by the Pauli exclusion principle.
The energy distribution of bosons is described by Bose-Einstein statistics.
This filling of states is described by Fermi-Dirac statistics.
hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu /hbase/particles/spinc.html#c3   (712 words)

  
 Articles - Satyendra Nath Bose
Bose had earlier translated Einstein's theory of General Relativity from German to English.
From this, he predicted the existence of phenomena which became known as Bose-Einstein condensate, a dense collection of bosons (which are particles with integer spin, named after Bose), which was proven to exist by experiment in 1995.
Bose's ideas were afterward well received in the world of physics, and he was granted leave from the University of Dacca to travel to Europe in 1924.
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 Chip off the old steel
Holgate reckons Bose certainly “changed the focus of Einstein’s research, and his reworking of Bose’s ideas led to a type of mathematics known as Bose-Einstein statistics”.
The inter-action between Bose, who was born in Kolkata in 1894 and died in 1974, and Einstein appears to have changed the course of physics.
Einstein was convinced by Bose’s work (“the Indian Bose has given a beautiful derivation of Planck’s law”) and secured its publication in Europe after personally translating it into German.
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