How Does the Hartree Model Account for the Pauli Exclusion Principle?

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My understanding of the Hartree approximation is that the product wavefunction is symmetric rather than antisymmetric, therefore the Hartree approximation effectively ignores the Pauli exclusion principle.

So how does the Pauli-exclusion principle get taken account of in the Hartree model?

Any clarification would be great appreciated.
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it gets taken into account to some degree because the occupied orbitals are all different.
 
hartree approx. when considers the pauli exclusion principle then it becomes hatree jock approximation .hatree jock approx. also provides antisymmetric function
 
hafsa said:
hartree approx. when considers the pauli exclusion principle then it becomes hatree jock approximation .hatree jock approx. also provides antisymmetric function

Fock, not jock.
 
Auwings2006 said:
My understanding of the Hartree approximation is that the product wavefunction is symmetric rather than antisymmetric, therefore the Hartree approximation effectively ignores the Pauli exclusion principle.

So how does the Pauli-exclusion principle get taken account of in the Hartree model?

Any clarification would be great appreciated.
Auwings2006

In the hartree approximation the wavefunction is neither symmetric nor anti-symmetric.