It reached some form of destination a century ago, at the beginning of 1925, with a principle that has underpinned our ideas of the stability of matter ever since. This is the Pauli exclusion ...

Fermions, like electrons, on the other hand, are lone wolves. Governed by the Pauli exclusion principle, they refuse to share a quantum state—a behavior responsible for the structure of the ...

In a new study published inNature Physics, scientists at the MAJORANA Collaboration have tested the stringency of charge conservation and Pauli's exclusion principles using underground detectors.

The Pauli Exclusion Principle prevents more than one electron (an example of a fermion) per quantum state; however no such limit is imposed on particles known as bosons, such as helium-4 atoms.