Testing the symmetrization postulate of quantum mechanics and the spin-statistics connection

Abstract

Recent experimental tests of the symmetrization postulate of quantum mechanics are discussed. It is shown that in a strict sense these experiments cannot test the validity of the symmetrization postulate, but in most cases do test the spin-statistics connection. An experiment is proposed that would allow to search for possible violations of the symmetrization postulate.

Latex, 14 pages, no figures

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