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State Pauli's exclusion principle.


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Pauli exclusion principle

  1. Pauli's exclusion principle says that every electron must be in its own unique state.
  2. No electrons in an atom are permitted to have an identical set of quantum numbers.
  3. Wolfgang Pauli's received the noble prize in physics for his discovery as it applies to electrons.
  4. The Pauli exclusion principle does not apply to bosons, these are particles that obey bose-einstein statistics they all have integer values.

Therefore, Pauli's exclusion principle says no two identical fermions can simultaneously occupy the same quantum state.


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