8.18 Roots of Bose and Fermi Statistics

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Three-Step Aims:

• Enable readers to use one underlying picture to see why some excitations coexist (Bose) while others avoid sharing a state (Fermi).
• Point out the intuitive gap in standard explanations and the rising explanation cost in low dimensions, for composite particles, and near boundaries.
• Recast the story with Energy Filament Theory (EFT) using the “energy sea—seam/pleat cost” picture, and propose testable clues plus the paradigm implications.

I. How the Mainstream Explains It (Ultra-Brief)

• Textbooks tie “coexist or exclude” to the phase gained under exchange and to spin: states that keep their sign under exchange behave as bosons; states that flip sign behave as fermions.
• This works for calculations and experiments, but it is far from a physical picture. In two dimensions (anyons), with composite particles, and in boundary/environmental settings, extra patches are required and intuition breaks.

The rest of this section explains “coexist/exclude” using EFT’s single physical intuition only.

II. Where the Difficulties Arise (Intuition vs. Patching)

• Intuitive gap: why should “sign change under exchange” decide whether excitations are willing to share the same state? Many readers remain at the level of abstract rules.
• Low dimensions and braiding: in two-dimensional materials, statistics appear “between” Bose and Fermi, forcing added topological concepts and breaking intuition.
• Composites and non-ideal bosons: pairs of fermions can act like effective bosons, yet at high overlap they deviate from perfect co-occupancy, and explanations become cumbersome.
• Environment terms: device orientation, stress textures, and boundary roughness produce small but repeatable shifts that resist a single, coherent picture.

III. How EFT Reframes It (One Underlying Language)

One-Sentence Picture
View the world as an energy sea. Every microscopic excitation is a bundle of fine ripples with “edge patterns.” When two identical bundles try to squeeze into the same small well (the same mode), the sea must choose: easy to seam, or forced to pleat.

• In-phase alignment (Bose appearance): the edge patterns zip together. No new pleat is needed; identical shapes simply stack higher. This is easy seaming.
• Half-phase mismatch (Fermi appearance): the patterns clash where they overlap, forcing the surface to raise a pleat (a node), or making one bundle change shape or move to a different well. This is forced pleating.

1. Why Bosons “Coexist”
   • Same well, same shape: easy seaming ⇒ no extra pleats, curvature unchanged, only the height of the same shape increases.
   • Cheaper as you add more: the curvature cost per excitation falls, so more excitations prefer the same well (coherence, stimulation, condensation follow).
2. Why Fermions “Exclude”
   • Same well demands a pleat: forced pleating ⇒ local curvature gets steeper and cost rises.
   • Lowest-cost strategy: occupy different wells, or change one bundle’s pattern (different state/direction/level). Macroscopically this looks like mutual avoidance and orderly filling.
   • Key point: this is not an extra hidden “force.” The cost arises because sharing a well forces a pleat.
3. Why Two-Dimensional Braiding Emerges Naturally
   In two dimensions, there are more ways to route paths. Seaming is not binary; there are multiple grades between “easy seam” and “forced pleat.” The appearance is statistics between Bose and Fermi. Underneath, it is still the ledger of whether the surface can seam flatly or must pleat.
4. What “Non-Ideal Bosons” in Composites Really Are
   • Two half-mismatched (fermionic) pieces paired together can cancel their mismatches, so the pair looks more seam-friendly—boson-like.
   • When pair-to-pair overlap is strong, internal mismatch “leaks out,” producing small deviations in condensation temperature, occupancy profiles, and coherence length. The essence remains the same seam-versus-pleat accounting.
5. Reading Environment and Boundaries on the Same Map
   • Device orientation, stress textures, and boundary roughness add gentle but repeatable tweaks to the seam/pleat cost.
   • These micro-shifts should align with a single background “tension map”: the zeroth order stays stable (rules intact), while first-order details drift slowly with environment.

Testable Clues (Handles for Experiments):

• Piling Together vs. Taking Turns: in cold-atom systems or optical cavities, track how entry into the same mode changes as occupancy grows: easy-seam species become easier to add when fuller; forced-pleat species enter only when a slot is free.
• Bunching vs. Anti-Bunching: in correlation imaging, easy-seam species bunch more; forced-pleat species spread out.
• “Queueing Boundary” Macroscopic Effect: even at very low temperatures, some systems resist further compression—adding participants would demand extra pleats or pattern changes, and the total cost jumps.
• Two-Dimensional Braiding with Orientation Co-Pointers: in quantum Hall settings, topological superconductors, or moiré systems, look for weak, reproducible correlations between braiding-type measurements and device orientation/texture.
• Non-Ideality Curves for Composite Bosons: across the Bose–Einstein condensate–Bardeen–Cooper–Schrieffer (BEC–BCS) crossover or in dense thin films, tune the pairing size/overlap and track systematic shifts in condensation threshold, occupancy peak shape, and coherence length, then align them with the same background map. After first mention, use Bose–Einstein condensate–Bardeen–Cooper–Schrieffer only.

IV. Paradigm Implications for the Field (In Brief)

• Return the abstract rule to a physical surface: translate “exchange keeps/flips sign” into “does the energy sea seam flatly or must it pleat,” giving a tangible shape-cost explanation.
• Low dimensions are no longer exceptions: fractional statistics arise because path routing has more options, not because a new theory must be invented from scratch.
• A unified reading for composites: the “non-ideality” of effective bosons is the comeback of internal mismatches at high overlap—consistent with the same background map.
• One background for environment terms: orientation, stress, and boundary effects should co-point on a shared map across observables, rather than needing separate patches.
• No new force required: coexistence/exclusion emerges from seaming cost; there is no need to posit an extra repulsive interaction.

Summary

In EFT’s simple intuition, the root of “Bose coexistence” and “Fermi exclusion” is whether sharing the same well demands a pleat.

• Easy seaming (no pleat): identical shapes stack higher; adding more gets cheaper; the appearance is Bose-like.
• Forced pleating (cost spikes): excitations prefer separate wells or altered patterns; the appearance is Fermi-like.

Two-dimensional behavior, composites, and subtle environmental shifts can all be read consistently as changes in the same seam-versus-pleat cost on one background map. In this way, “statistics” returns from an abstract slogan to a visible, comparable, and re-checkable physical picture.