Grand-canonical single-level occupation variance
ID: grand-canonical-single-level-occupation-variance
For one independent fermion level, occupations 0 and 1 form a Bernoulli distribution and give . For one ideal boson level in contact with a reservoir, its geometric distribution gives . Both approach variance equal to mean at small occupation. Pauli exclusion suppresses fluctuations of nearly full fermion states, whereas large boson occupation gives variance of order mean squared. Fixed-total-number constraints change condensate fluctuation statements.
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