Statistics given a spin

Jason Twamley
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Jason Twamley: Theory and Laser Optics Groups, Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College

Nature, 1997, vol. 389, issue 6647, 127-129

Abstract: Why can't two electrons share the same quantum state? The Pauli exclusion principle states that they, and other spin-1/2 particles, cannot. This is an apparently fundamental precept of quantum mechanics, and something with an important everyday consequence — it stops matter from collapsing. But why is it true? A new formulation explains the exclusion principle in terms of the topology of the space that identical particles move in.

Date: 1997
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DOI: 10.1038/38130

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