Wednesday, April 10, 2019

homework and exercises - Totally antisymetric wavefunction: clarification about terminology



Pauli's Principle says:


"The wavefunction of two identical fermions must be totally antisymmetric".


I know that, for a antisymmetric wavefunction,


(1)L(1)S+1(1)I+1=1


"totally antisymmetric" means this relation or it means that these 3 relations:


(1)L=1 and


(1)S+1=1 and


(1)I+1=1


must be verified simultaneusly?



Answer




It's the total product. The famous example is the spin of the deuteron. We have evidence that the two-nucleon isospin triplet with I=1 is unbound because we do not observe diprotons or dineutrons in nature, so we expect the deuteron to have isospin I=0. We know that the deuteron has positive parity, so we require L even; by antisymmetry the deuteron must have spin S=1.


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