Statistics, Symmetry, and the Conventionality of Indistinguishability in Quantum Mechanics

Darrin W.S. Belousek, Ohio Northern University

Abstract

This paper continues an earlier work by considering in what sense and to what extent identical Bohmian-mechanical particles in many-particle systems can be considered indistinguishable. We conclude that while whether identical Bohmian-mechanical particles ace considered to be "statistically (in)distinguishable'' is a matter of theory choice underdetermined by logic and experiment, such particles are in any case "physically distinguishable.''