QUESTION

I would be grateful for some help or solution regarding these Quantum Chemistry questions.

a) Why can the electronic wave function not be constructed as the simple product of one electron wave function, but needs to be constructed as a so-called Slater determinant?

b) What is the consequence of using the Slater determinant instead of the simple product in terms of electron-electron interactions?

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