Place one noninteracting spin-zero boson in each of two orthonormal orbitals . Its normalized symmetric spatial wavefunction is . At coincident positions the probability density is , twice the labelled distinguishable-product value. Coincidence at an exact point is understood as a density or the limit of small detector volumes. If both particles occupy the same orbital, the normalized product is already symmetric and this comparison gives factor one instead; the factor two is not a universal property of every two-boson state.
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