In quantum statistics, inhibition/enhancement factors

[Dubz]

These ideas come from the book Quantum Physics by Eisberg and Resnick (specifically ch11), can anyone explain what the inhibition factor and enhancement factors are in a little more detail?
I do not understand what the book is trying to explain, and I can't seem to find these anywhere online.

If needed I can try and give some more details.

 

[DrClaude]

I've never heard of the terms before. I looked at book, and it appears to be simply a particular point of view to illustrate the difference between fermion, bosons, and classical particles.

Because of the Pauli principle, no two fermions can occupy the same state, so compare to classical particles, there appears to be an inhibition factor preventing the occupancy going above 1. Then, if you look at Bose-Einstein statistics, there is an increased probability of finding two bosons in the same state, compared to classical particles, meaning an "enhancement factor".

As this is not standard terminally, I wouldn't put too much effort on understanding it. Just focus on the difference in statistics for the different kinds of particles.

 

[Lord Jestocost]

There was some thread addressing the question: https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/a-question-on-bose-enhancement-pauli-blocking.881272/