{"id":41,"date":"2018-11-13T12:05:22","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T12:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phyp10.epgpbooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=41"},"modified":"2019-04-30T06:48:18","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T06:48:18","slug":"pauli-exclusion-principle","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp10\/chapter\/pauli-exclusion-principle\/","title":{"rendered":"Pauli Exclusion Principle"},"content":{"raw":"<div><span style=\"float: right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/9OGTCoPHDVU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img src=\"http:\/\/epgpbooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/download.png\" alt=\"epgp books\" width=\"75px\" height=\"75px;\" \/><\/a>\r\n<\/span><\/div>\r\n<div>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>Contents:<\/strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Pauli exclusion principle\r\n\r\n2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Pauli exclusion principle and Quantum mechanics\r\n\r\n3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Atoms and the Pauli principle\r\n\r\n4.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Stability of matter with Pauli exclusion principle\r\n\r\n<strong>5.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Spin and the Pauli Exclusion Principle\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The students will be able to learn about the Quantum states of electrons and Pauli exclusion principle role in different fields, particularly the building block for atomic spectra<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>Pauli Exclusion Principle:<\/strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The <strong>Pauli exclusion principle<\/strong> is the quantum mechanical principle that states that two or more identical fermions (particles with half-integer spin) cannot occupy the same quantum state within a quantum system simultaneously.<\/p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIn case of electrons in atoms, the statement can be read as: it is impossible for two electrons of a poly-electron atom to have the same values of the four quantum numbers:\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nn, the principal quantum number,\r\n\r\n\u2113, the angular momentum quantum number,\r\n\r\nm\u2113, the magnetic quantum number, and\r\n\r\nms, the spin quantum number.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">If two electrons are lying in the same orbital, and their n, \u2113 and m\u2113 values are the same, then their ms must be different, that infers the electrons must have opposite half-integer spins of 1\/2 and \u22121\/2. This principle was formulated by <strong>Austrian physicist <\/strong><strong>Wolfgang Pauli <\/strong><strong>in 1925 <\/strong>for electrons, and later extended to all fermions with his spin-statistics theorem.<\/p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In other words, the total wave function for two identical fermions is anti-<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Identical_particles#Quantum_mechanical_description_of_identical_particles\">symmetric <\/a>with respect to exchange of the particles. That simply means that the wave function changes its sign in case the space and spin co-ordinates of any two particles are interchanged.<\/p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">However, Particles with an integer spin (bosons), donot obey Pauli Exclusion Principle because any number of identical bosons can occupy the same quantum state.<\/p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Conclusively, the Pauli Exclusion Principle dictates the behavior of all fermions (quarks, electrons and neutrinos i.e. half-integer spin :1\/2, 3\/2, 5\/2, etc. particles), while bosons (particles with integer spin) will follow other principles. Noteworthy, atoms can have different overall \"spin\" that determines whether they are fermions or bosons ,e.g. Helium-3 has spin 1\/2 and is therefore is considered as fermion, while Helium-4 that has 0 spin and therefore is a boson.<\/p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">The Pauli Exclusion Principle determines many properties of the matter, from its large-scale stability to the <\/span>chemical behavior of atoms.<\/p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">The theory of <\/span>quantum mechanics <span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">describes the fermions by <\/span>anti-symmetric states. <span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">In contrast, particles with integer spin (bosons) have symmetric wave functions; unlike fermions these share the same quantum states. Fermions take their name from the <\/span>Fermi\u2013Dirac statistical distribution <span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">while bosons from <\/span>Bose\u2013 Einstein distribution.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nPauli\u2019s Exclusion Principle states that\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>No two electrons in an atom can have identical quantum numbers, <\/strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">as the energy states are designated with these four quantum numbers, the statement can be re written as: <strong>an energy state can\u2019t accommodate more than one electron<\/strong> <strong>with a given set of four quantum numbers<\/strong>.<\/p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAlternatively,\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>No two Fermions can exist in identical quantum energy states.<\/strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The establishment of the principle has made us to understand the concepts of band theory of solids, modeling of the atomic shell structure and building of the periodic table. However, the understanding of shell structure of atom facilitates the analysis of the atomic spectra.<\/p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-45\" src=\"http:\/\/phyp10.epgpbooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/2018\/11\/1-15.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"662\" height=\"229\" \/>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">On the basis of Pauli\u2019s principle, number of electrons in a shell and the net angular moments associated with them can be found.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>Pauli Exclusion Principle through Quantum mechanics:<\/strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>The Pauli Exclusion Principle with a single-valued many-particle wave function is equivalent to requiring the wave function to be anti- symmetric. An anti-symmetric two-particle state is represented as a <\/strong><strong>sum of states <\/strong><strong>in which one particle is in one state and the other in other state , and is given by:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Anti-symmetry (when the particles are exchanged) means that A(r,s) = \u2212A(s,r). This means A(r,s) = 0 when r = s that is , Pauli exclusion.<\/p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Quantum mechanically, Pauli\u2019s Exclusion Principle dictates that the \u2018<strong>total eigen<\/strong> <strong>function of a system of several electrons must be antisymmetric with respect to exchange of the coordinates (position and spin) of two electrons\u2019<\/strong>.<\/p>\r\n<img class=\"alignnone wp-image-47\" src=\"http:\/\/phyp10.epgpbooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/2018\/11\/1-16.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"820\" height=\"682\" \/>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 1em;text-align: initial\">in a state with the same space \u00a0spin quantum numbers, the system can\u2019t be described by .<\/span>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In other words two particles must have different sets of four quantum numbers. For a system of several electrons, the principle is expressed as:<\/p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>A system consisting of several electrons (Fermions) must be described by an Anti-symmetric total eigenfunction.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>Atoms and the Pauli principle<\/strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">One of the important consequences of the principle is the elaboration of electron shell structure of atoms and the way atoms share electrons therby explaining the variety of chemical elements and their combinations. It is known that an electrically neutral atom contains bound electrons equal in number to the protons in the nucleus. Electrons, being fermions, cannot occupy the same quantum state as other electrons, so electrons have different spins (within an atom) at the same electron orbital.<\/p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Considering the case of neutral helium atom that has two bound electrons, both can occupy the lowest-energy (1s) states by acquiring opposite spin; as spin is part of the quantum state of the electron, the two electrons are in different quantum states and do not violate the Pauli principle.<\/p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">But the spin can take only two different values <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eigenvalue\">(eigenvalues)<\/a>. Further extending the concept to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lithium\">lithium <\/a>atom, with three bound electrons, the third electron cannot reside in 1s state, and therefore must occupy one of the higher-energy 2s states. The number of electrons in the outermost shell decides the chemical properties.The idea can be extended to successively larger elements where shells of successively higher energy are occupied.<\/p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>Solid state properties and the Pauli principle<\/strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In conductors and semiconductors, there are very large numbers of orbital that effectively form a continuous band structure of energy levels. In metal conductors, electrons lie in degenerate states that they cannot contribute much to the thermal capacity of a metal. All most all types of mechanical, electrical, magnetic, optical and chemical properties of solids are the direct consequences of Pauli exclusion principle<\/p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">Stability of matter with Pauli Exclusion Principle<\/strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">The stability of the electrons in an atom is not directly related to the exclusion principle, but the quantum theory of the atom describes it very well. The Heisenberg <\/span>uncertainty principle <span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">explains the idea that close approach of an electron to the nucleus of the atom necessarily increases its kinetic energy. The stability of large systems with many electrons and many <\/span>nucleons <span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">is also explained by the Pauli Exclusion Principle.<\/span><\/p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">The Pauli Exclusion Principle suggest that the bulk matter is stable and occupies volume, as <\/span>Paul Ehrenfest <span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">(1931) has pointed out that the electrons of each atom cannot all fall into the lowest-energy orbital and hence must occupy successively larger shells. Atoms cannot be squeezed too closely together and therefore occupy a volume.<\/span><\/p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">Freeman Dyson <\/span><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">and Andrew Lenard (1967), considered the balance of attractive; electron\u2013nuclear and repulsive such as electron\u2013electron and nuclear\u2013 nuclear forces and showed that ordinary matter would collapse and occupy a much smaller volume without the Pauli principle.<\/span><\/p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">In conclusion, the electrons of the same spin are kept apart by a repulsive <\/span>exchange interaction <span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">that is a short-range effect, acting simultaneously with the long-range electrostatic or <\/span>Coulombic force. <span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">This effect is partly observed in the macroscopic world that two solid objects cannot be in the same place at the same time.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>SPIN AND THE PAULI EXCLUSION PRINCIPLE<\/strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Spin is considered as a rotation of particles around their \u00a0own axis. The question is whether something as small as an electron is spinning at all. In general, though, spin obeys the same mathematical laws of angular momentum as objects do spinning in classical physics (such as the Earth revolving around its own axis), and there are two important aspects: the speed of rotation and the direction of the axis it rotates about ( \u2018up\u2019 and \u2018down\u2019).<\/p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The concept of spin was first discovered in 1922 by Otto Stern and Walther Gerlach, and they inferred from the experiments that the intrinsic angular momentum, or spin, of a particle such as an electron is quantized which implies that it could only take certain discrete values. The spin of composite particles\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 1em;text-align: initial\">like protons, neutrons and atomic nuclei, is the sum of the spins and orbital angular momentum of the constituent particles, and is therefore follow the same\u00a0quantization conditions. Spin is therefore a completely quantum mechanical property of a particle. <\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div>\r\n\r\n<img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-48\" src=\"http:\/\/phyp10.epgpbooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/2018\/11\/1-17.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"191\" \/>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Now the difference between bosons and fermions is understood as: bosons have symmetric wave functions while fermions have anti-symmetric wave functions. Just to understand the concept of spin with half-integer spin that an electron has to spin around TWICE before it presents the same face as earlier. While the probability waves of bosons \u201cflip\u201d or invert before they interfere with each other, Fermions, however, do not flip their probability waves. Therefore, the spins of particles need to be added together using special rules for addition of angular momentum.<\/p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Another way of stating the principle is that <strong>no two fermions in a quantum<\/strong> <strong>system can have the same values of all four quantum numbers at any given time<\/strong>. A very high density white dwarf stars, is explained and also the very existence of different types of atoms in the universe and the large-scale stability and bulk of matter.<\/p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">By recognizing is the Pauli Exclusion Principle that no two electrons can occupy the same quantum state simultaneously, it effectively stops electrons from \"piling up\" on top of each other. This explains why matter occupies space exclusively for itself and does not allow other material objects to pass through it and at the same time allows radiations to pass.<\/p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The existence of the different atoms in the periodic table of elements and the sheer variety of the universe around us is also understood by this principle. In case an atom gains a new electron, it always goes into the lowest energy state available of course, the outermost shell. Two atoms with \u2018closed\u2019 shells cannot form a chemical bond with each other as the electrons in one atom does not find available quantum states in the other that it can occupy. In this way, the\u00a0<span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">arrangement of electrons in the outermost shell affects the chemical properties of an element and how atoms are able to bond and combine with other atoms. Same way, the molecules interact to form gases, liquids or solids, and how they aggregate themselves in living organisms.<\/span><\/p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">The Pauli Exclusion Principle explains the degenerate white dwarf (a type of star) as if two identical particles are forced to have the same quantum numbers, they respond with a repelling outward force, known as \"degeneracy pressure\" or \"Pauli repulsion\".<\/span><\/p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">The Pauli exclusion principle is one of the most important principles because the three types of particles (electrons, protons and neutrons) from which ordinary matter is made up concludes that all material particles exhibit space-occupying behavior.<\/span><\/p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div><strong>References:<\/strong><\/div>\r\n<div>1. https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pauli_exclusion_principle<\/div>\r\n<div>2. http:\/\/hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu\/hbase\/pauli.html<\/div>\r\n<div>3.https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/science\/Pauli-exclusion-principle<\/div>\r\n<div>4.https:\/\/www.thoughtco.com\/definition-of-pauli-exclusion-principle-605486<\/div>\r\n<div>5.http:\/\/www.yourdictionary.com\/pauli-exclusion-principle<\/div>\r\n<div>6.http:\/\/www.thefreedictionary.com\/Pauli+exclusion+principle<\/div>\r\n<div>7.Pauli\u2019s exclusion principle \u201c The origin and validation on scientific principle \u201c by Michela Massimi<\/div>\r\n<div>8.The Pauli Exclusion Principle \u201c origin validation and applications \u201c by ILya G. Kaplan<\/div>\r\n<table>\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td><strong>you can view video on Pauli Exclusion Principle<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/9OGTCoPHDVU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-120\" src=\"http:\/\/epgpbooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/download.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"36\" height=\"36\" \/><\/a><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>","rendered":"<div><span style=\"float: right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/9OGTCoPHDVU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/epgpbooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/download.png\" alt=\"epgp books\" width=\"75px\" height=\"75px;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contents:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Pauli exclusion principle<\/p>\n<p>2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Pauli exclusion principle and Quantum mechanics<\/p>\n<p>3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Atoms and the Pauli principle<\/p>\n<p>4.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Stability of matter with Pauli exclusion principle<\/p>\n<p><strong>5.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Spin and the Pauli Exclusion Principle<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The students will be able to learn about the Quantum states of electrons and Pauli exclusion principle role in different fields, particularly the building block for atomic spectra<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pauli Exclusion Principle:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The <strong>Pauli exclusion principle<\/strong> is the quantum mechanical principle that states that two or more identical fermions (particles with half-integer spin) cannot occupy the same quantum state within a quantum system simultaneously.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In case of electrons in atoms, the statement can be read as: it is impossible for two electrons of a poly-electron atom to have the same values of the four quantum numbers:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>n, the principal quantum number,<\/p>\n<p>\u2113, the angular momentum quantum number,<\/p>\n<p>m\u2113, the magnetic quantum number, and<\/p>\n<p>ms, the spin quantum number.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">If two electrons are lying in the same orbital, and their n, \u2113 and m\u2113 values are the same, then their ms must be different, that infers the electrons must have opposite half-integer spins of 1\/2 and \u22121\/2. This principle was formulated by <strong>Austrian physicist <\/strong><strong>Wolfgang Pauli <\/strong><strong>in 1925 <\/strong>for electrons, and later extended to all fermions with his spin-statistics theorem.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In other words, the total wave function for two identical fermions is anti-<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Identical_particles#Quantum_mechanical_description_of_identical_particles\">symmetric <\/a>with respect to exchange of the particles. That simply means that the wave function changes its sign in case the space and spin co-ordinates of any two particles are interchanged.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">However, Particles with an integer spin (bosons), donot obey Pauli Exclusion Principle because any number of identical bosons can occupy the same quantum state.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Conclusively, the Pauli Exclusion Principle dictates the behavior of all fermions (quarks, electrons and neutrinos i.e. half-integer spin :1\/2, 3\/2, 5\/2, etc. particles), while bosons (particles with integer spin) will follow other principles. Noteworthy, atoms can have different overall &#8220;spin&#8221; that determines whether they are fermions or bosons ,e.g. Helium-3 has spin 1\/2 and is therefore is considered as fermion, while Helium-4 that has 0 spin and therefore is a boson.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">The Pauli Exclusion Principle determines many properties of the matter, from its large-scale stability to the <\/span>chemical behavior of atoms.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">The theory of <\/span>quantum mechanics <span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">describes the fermions by <\/span>anti-symmetric states. <span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">In contrast, particles with integer spin (bosons) have symmetric wave functions; unlike fermions these share the same quantum states. Fermions take their name from the <\/span>Fermi\u2013Dirac statistical distribution <span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">while bosons from <\/span>Bose\u2013 Einstein distribution.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pauli\u2019s Exclusion Principle states that<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>No two electrons in an atom can have identical quantum numbers, <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">as the energy states are designated with these four quantum numbers, the statement can be re written as: <strong>an energy state can\u2019t accommodate more than one electron<\/strong> <strong>with a given set of four quantum numbers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Alternatively,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>No two Fermions can exist in identical quantum energy states.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The establishment of the principle has made us to understand the concepts of band theory of solids, modeling of the atomic shell structure and building of the periodic table. However, the understanding of shell structure of atom facilitates the analysis of the atomic spectra.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-45\" src=\"http:\/\/phyp10.epgpbooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/2018\/11\/1-15.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"662\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp10\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/2018\/11\/1-15.png 662w, https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp10\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/2018\/11\/1-15-300x104.png 300w, https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp10\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/2018\/11\/1-15-65x22.png 65w, https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp10\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/2018\/11\/1-15-225x78.png 225w, https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp10\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/2018\/11\/1-15-350x121.png 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 662px) 100vw, 662px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">On the basis of Pauli\u2019s principle, number of electrons in a shell and the net angular moments associated with them can be found.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pauli Exclusion Principle through Quantum mechanics:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>The Pauli Exclusion Principle with a single-valued many-particle wave function is equivalent to requiring the wave function to be anti- symmetric. An anti-symmetric two-particle state is represented as a <\/strong><strong>sum of states <\/strong><strong>in which one particle is in one state and the other in other state , and is given by:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Anti-symmetry (when the particles are exchanged) means that A(r,s) = \u2212A(s,r). This means A(r,s) = 0 when r = s that is , Pauli exclusion.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Quantum mechanically, Pauli\u2019s Exclusion Principle dictates that the \u2018<strong>total eigen<\/strong> <strong>function of a system of several electrons must be antisymmetric with respect to exchange of the coordinates (position and spin) of two electrons\u2019<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-47\" src=\"http:\/\/phyp10.epgpbooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/2018\/11\/1-16.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"820\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp10\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/2018\/11\/1-16.png 685w, https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp10\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/2018\/11\/1-16-300x250.png 300w, https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp10\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/2018\/11\/1-16-65x54.png 65w, https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp10\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/2018\/11\/1-16-225x187.png 225w, https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp10\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/2018\/11\/1-16-350x291.png 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 100vw, 820px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1em;text-align: initial\">in a state with the same space \u00a0spin quantum numbers, the system can\u2019t be described by .<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In other words two particles must have different sets of four quantum numbers. For a system of several electrons, the principle is expressed as:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>A system consisting of several electrons (Fermions) must be described by an Anti-symmetric total eigenfunction.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Atoms and the Pauli principle<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">One of the important consequences of the principle is the elaboration of electron shell structure of atoms and the way atoms share electrons therby explaining the variety of chemical elements and their combinations. It is known that an electrically neutral atom contains bound electrons equal in number to the protons in the nucleus. Electrons, being fermions, cannot occupy the same quantum state as other electrons, so electrons have different spins (within an atom) at the same electron orbital.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Considering the case of neutral helium atom that has two bound electrons, both can occupy the lowest-energy (1s) states by acquiring opposite spin; as spin is part of the quantum state of the electron, the two electrons are in different quantum states and do not violate the Pauli principle.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">But the spin can take only two different values <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eigenvalue\">(eigenvalues)<\/a>. Further extending the concept to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lithium\">lithium <\/a>atom, with three bound electrons, the third electron cannot reside in 1s state, and therefore must occupy one of the higher-energy 2s states. The number of electrons in the outermost shell decides the chemical properties.The idea can be extended to successively larger elements where shells of successively higher energy are occupied.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Solid state properties and the Pauli principle<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In conductors and semiconductors, there are very large numbers of orbital that effectively form a continuous band structure of energy levels. In metal conductors, electrons lie in degenerate states that they cannot contribute much to the thermal capacity of a metal. All most all types of mechanical, electrical, magnetic, optical and chemical properties of solids are the direct consequences of Pauli exclusion principle<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">Stability of matter with Pauli Exclusion Principle<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">The stability of the electrons in an atom is not directly related to the exclusion principle, but the quantum theory of the atom describes it very well. The Heisenberg <\/span>uncertainty principle <span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">explains the idea that close approach of an electron to the nucleus of the atom necessarily increases its kinetic energy. The stability of large systems with many electrons and many <\/span>nucleons <span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">is also explained by the Pauli Exclusion Principle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">The Pauli Exclusion Principle suggest that the bulk matter is stable and occupies volume, as <\/span>Paul Ehrenfest <span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">(1931) has pointed out that the electrons of each atom cannot all fall into the lowest-energy orbital and hence must occupy successively larger shells. Atoms cannot be squeezed too closely together and therefore occupy a volume.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">Freeman Dyson <\/span><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">and Andrew Lenard (1967), considered the balance of attractive; electron\u2013nuclear and repulsive such as electron\u2013electron and nuclear\u2013 nuclear forces and showed that ordinary matter would collapse and occupy a much smaller volume without the Pauli principle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">In conclusion, the electrons of the same spin are kept apart by a repulsive <\/span>exchange interaction <span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">that is a short-range effect, acting simultaneously with the long-range electrostatic or <\/span>Coulombic force. <span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">This effect is partly observed in the macroscopic world that two solid objects cannot be in the same place at the same time.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>SPIN AND THE PAULI EXCLUSION PRINCIPLE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Spin is considered as a rotation of particles around their \u00a0own axis. The question is whether something as small as an electron is spinning at all. In general, though, spin obeys the same mathematical laws of angular momentum as objects do spinning in classical physics (such as the Earth revolving around its own axis), and there are two important aspects: the speed of rotation and the direction of the axis it rotates about ( \u2018up\u2019 and \u2018down\u2019).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The concept of spin was first discovered in 1922 by Otto Stern and Walther Gerlach, and they inferred from the experiments that the intrinsic angular momentum, or spin, of a particle such as an electron is quantized which implies that it could only take certain discrete values. The spin of composite particles\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 1em;text-align: initial\">like protons, neutrons and atomic nuclei, is the sum of the spins and orbital angular momentum of the constituent particles, and is therefore follow the same\u00a0quantization conditions. Spin is therefore a completely quantum mechanical property of a particle. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-48\" src=\"http:\/\/phyp10.epgpbooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/2018\/11\/1-17.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp10\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/2018\/11\/1-17.png 210w, https:\/\/ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in\/phyp10\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/2018\/11\/1-17-65x59.png 65w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Now the difference between bosons and fermions is understood as: bosons have symmetric wave functions while fermions have anti-symmetric wave functions. Just to understand the concept of spin with half-integer spin that an electron has to spin around TWICE before it presents the same face as earlier. While the probability waves of bosons \u201cflip\u201d or invert before they interfere with each other, Fermions, however, do not flip their probability waves. Therefore, the spins of particles need to be added together using special rules for addition of angular momentum.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Another way of stating the principle is that <strong>no two fermions in a quantum<\/strong> <strong>system can have the same values of all four quantum numbers at any given time<\/strong>. A very high density white dwarf stars, is explained and also the very existence of different types of atoms in the universe and the large-scale stability and bulk of matter.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">By recognizing is the Pauli Exclusion Principle that no two electrons can occupy the same quantum state simultaneously, it effectively stops electrons from &#8220;piling up&#8221; on top of each other. This explains why matter occupies space exclusively for itself and does not allow other material objects to pass through it and at the same time allows radiations to pass.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The existence of the different atoms in the periodic table of elements and the sheer variety of the universe around us is also understood by this principle. In case an atom gains a new electron, it always goes into the lowest energy state available of course, the outermost shell. Two atoms with \u2018closed\u2019 shells cannot form a chemical bond with each other as the electrons in one atom does not find available quantum states in the other that it can occupy. In this way, the\u00a0<span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">arrangement of electrons in the outermost shell affects the chemical properties of an element and how atoms are able to bond and combine with other atoms. Same way, the molecules interact to form gases, liquids or solids, and how they aggregate themselves in living organisms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">The Pauli Exclusion Principle explains the degenerate white dwarf (a type of star) as if two identical particles are forced to have the same quantum numbers, they respond with a repelling outward force, known as &#8220;degeneracy pressure&#8221; or &#8220;Pauli repulsion&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">The Pauli exclusion principle is one of the most important principles because the three types of particles (electrons, protons and neutrons) from which ordinary matter is made up concludes that all material particles exhibit space-occupying behavior.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><strong>References:<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>1. https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pauli_exclusion_principle<\/div>\n<div>2. http:\/\/hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu\/hbase\/pauli.html<\/div>\n<div>3.https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/science\/Pauli-exclusion-principle<\/div>\n<div>4.https:\/\/www.thoughtco.com\/definition-of-pauli-exclusion-principle-605486<\/div>\n<div>5.http:\/\/www.yourdictionary.com\/pauli-exclusion-principle<\/div>\n<div>6.http:\/\/www.thefreedictionary.com\/Pauli+exclusion+principle<\/div>\n<div>7.Pauli\u2019s exclusion principle \u201c The origin and validation on scientific principle \u201c by Michela Massimi<\/div>\n<div>8.The Pauli Exclusion Principle \u201c origin validation and applications \u201c by ILya G. 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