A Modern Approach to Quantum Mechanics · Problem 14.5

Photons and Atoms — John S. Townsend

Physics — Quantum Mechanics · anticommutation-relations-fermions

Problem

Consider an alternative way of turning on quantum mechanics in a field theory—namely, anticommutation relations—that limits the number of particles that can be in the same state to one. Show how imposing anticommutation relations (instead of commutation relations) on the creation and annihilation operators leads to the Pauli exclusion principle.

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