[Physics] Experimental evidence of Pauli’s exclusion principle

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A fermion is described by a set of quantum numbers, this set of numbers lead us to a unique wave function. If two fermions are described by the same wave function (violating the Pauli's exclusion principle), how can we differentiate this fermions if experimentally it produces the same result?

Best Answer

I think the atomic configuration is the strongest evidence to Pauli's Exclusion Principle. You simply have atoms that have energy levels sorted in a way that agrees with the pauli's principle.

Besides, the Zeeman effect shows the separation between different spins, which raises the degeneracy between the levels that agree in all quantum numbers but not the spin.