Timeline for Are surface plasmons fermions or bosons?
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| Jun 8, 2019 at 17:08 | comment | added | Emilio Pisanty | Yes, but collective excitations (including plasmons) need not carry spin, regardless of whether the number of fermions that takes part of the motion is even or odd. As a simpler example, phonons are bosons, regardless of whether the ions in the lattice are fermions or not and regardless of how many there are. | |
| Jun 8, 2019 at 16:48 | comment | added | ignoramus | Are statistics not a consequence of spin via the spin-statistics theorem? | |
| Jun 8, 2019 at 14:35 | review | Late answers | |||
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| Jun 8, 2019 at 14:32 | comment | added | Emilio Pisanty | Plasmons can be treated classically, but they can also be treated quantum mechanically, depending on the situation (which need not comprise a macroscopic number of electrons, particularly for surface plasmons and in nanostructures). The spin is not that relevant - what matters is the statistics. | |
| Jun 8, 2019 at 14:20 | review | First posts | |||
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| Jun 8, 2019 at 14:17 | history | answered | ignoramus | CC BY-SA 4.0 |