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any particle that obeys the exclusion principle and Fermi-Dirac statistics; fermions have spins that are half an odd integer: <sup>1</sup>/<sub>2</sub>, <sup>3</sup>/<sub>2</sub>, <sup>5</sup>/<sub>2</sub>, ...

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  • Well, you could call the fermionic part of a superstring inherently quantum, in the sense that fermionic fields are inherently quantum.
  • But you could also call fermionic fields “anti-classical” rather than quantum, given that bosonic fields (absent quantum dynamics) are classical.
  • The experiment detected no such "fermionic" photons, establishing the distinctness of bosons and fermions, and validating the assumptions underlying Bose-Einstein...
  • The experiment detected no such "fermionic" photons, establishing the distinctness of bosons and fermions, and validating the assumptions underlying Bose-Einstein...
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