Unlike classical particles, quantum particles are indistinguishable.Fermions and bosons differ in their quantum statistics, and the consequences of this for their statistical mechanics are explored in the grand canonical ensemble.The Fermi--Dirac and Bose--Einstein distribution functions are derived, and utilized to write thermal averages using the density of states.
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