Bose-Einstein statistics facts for kids

In statistical mechanics, Bose-Einstein statistics means the statistics of a system where you can not tell the difference between any of the particles, and the particles are bosons. Bosons are fundamental particles like the photon.

The Bose-Einstein distribution tells you how many particles have a certain energy. The formula is

n(\varepsilon) = \frac{1}{e^{(\varepsilon-\mu)/kT}-1}

with $\varepsilon > \mu$ and where:

n(ε) is the number of particles which have energy ε

ε is the energy

If $\varepsilon-\mu \gg kT$ , then the Maxwell–Boltzmann statistics is a good approximation.

Images for kids

The image represents one possible distribution of bosonic particles in different boxes. The box partitions (green) can be moved around to change the size of the boxes and as a result of the number of bosons each box can contain.