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Why is fractional statistics and non-Abelian common for fractional charges?
Why non integer spins obey Fermi statistics?
Why is fractional statistics and non-Abelian common for fractional charges?
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A reading list to build up to the spin statistics theorem
Wikipedia's article on the spin-statistics theorem sums it up thusly:
In quantum mechanics, the spin-statistics theorem relates the spin of a particle to the particle statistics it obeys. The spin ...
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Time reversal symmetry and T^2 = -1
I'm a mathematician interested in abstract QFT. I'm trying to undersand why, under certain (all?) circumstances, we must have $T^2 = -1$ rather than $T^2 = +1$, where $T$ is the time reversal ...
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What causes the Pauli exclusion principle (and why does spin 1/2 = fermion)?
It seems to be related to exchange interaction, but I can't penetrate the Wikipedia article. What has the Pauli exclusion principle to do with indistinguishability?
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Does there exist a nonrelativistic physical system in which the effective long-distance fields violate spin/statistics?
The nonrelativistic Schrodinger field allows spin independent of statistics, so that you can imagine a nonrelativistic Schrodinger scalar field with Fermionic statistics, or a Schrodinger spinor field ...
