Spinning Around: The Pauli Principle and Slater Determinants

Electron spin is generally viewed as an ad hoc development in wave mechanics (though it arises naturally in other forumations, such as Dirac's). Using a general statement of the Pauli Exclusion Principle, we showed that Slater's suggestion of using wavefunctions constructed from determinants would insure that the Pauli's principle was satisfied.

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Some biographical information on J.C. Slater

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