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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