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How did Pauli determine his exclusion principle? Was it based on how he posited electron shells filled? Is the fact that fermions are antisymmetic a mathematical solution to make the principle work with quantum theory?
I don't know the historical side, but I think it became clear that there must be some principle at work to prevent all electrons reaching the ground state.imsmooth said:How did Pauli determine his exclusion principle? Was it based on how he posited electron shells filled? Is the fact that fermions are antisymmetic a mathematical solution to make the principle work with quantum theory?
imsmooth said:How did Pauli determine his exclusion principle?
Thank you. This is what I was looking for. As I thought, he had the insight and came up with it to explain reality.PeterDonis said:This article gives a brief historical overview:
https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200701/history.cfm
Fermions are a type of subatomic particle that make up matter. They are characterized by their half-integer spin and follow the rules of Fermi-Dirac statistics.
Wolfgang Pauli was a physicist who is best known for his work on the exclusion principle, which states that no two fermions can occupy the same quantum state simultaneously. This principle is crucial in understanding the behavior of fermions in atoms and other systems.
The antisymmetry property in fermions refers to the fact that the wave function of a system of identical fermions must be antisymmetric under particle exchange. This is a consequence of the exclusion principle and has important implications in quantum mechanics.
Yes, fermions can exhibit both wave-like and particle-like behavior, depending on the experimental setup. This is known as wave-particle duality and is a fundamental concept in quantum mechanics.
Fermions and bosons are two types of subatomic particles with different properties. While fermions have half-integer spin and follow the exclusion principle, bosons have integer spin and do not follow this principle. Additionally, fermions make up matter while bosons are responsible for fundamental forces.