I imagine the following thought experiment: Let us prepare two identical neutral fermions with identical spin and antisymmetric spatial wave function in one spatial dimension. Let the initial state be two Gaussian wave packets which start at some large distance and have identical speed, but opposite direction. Since the particles are neutral, the wave packages should move through each other undisturbed. But at the time, where the particles are at the same place, the antisymmetrized wave function adds up to zero, so you cannot normalize the state. The exchange interaction should be zero because the particles are not charged. For the same reason there should be no magnetic moment. Where is the error in the argument?
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