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If two fermions occupied the same complete spin orbital , their antisymmetrized product would be
The zero vector cannot represent a normalized quantum state. This is the Pauli exclusion principle: at most one identical fermion occupies any complete one-particle state. Two electrons may occupy the same spatial orbital with opposite spins, because and are different spin orbitals.

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