The Pauli principle revisited
Quantum Physics
2009-11-13 v1
Abstract
By the Pauli exclusion principle no quantum state can be occupied by more than one electron. One can put it as a constraint on the electron density matrix that bounds its eigenvalues by 1. Shortly after its discovery the Pauli principle has been replaced by skew symmetry of a multi-electron wave function. In this paper we solve a longstanding problem about the impact of this replacement on the electron density matrix, that goes far beyond the original Pauli principle.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0802.0918,
title = {The Pauli principle revisited},
author = {M. Altunbulak and A. Klyachko},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0802.0918},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
38 pages, submitted to Communications in Mathematical Physics