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The Stoner criterion is a condition to be fulfilled for the ferromagnetic order to arise in a simplified model of a solid. It is named after Edmund Clifton Stoner. ==Stoner model of ferromagnetism== Ferromagnetism ultimately stems from electron-electron interactions. The simplified model of a solid which is nowadays usually called the Stoner model, can be formulated in terms of dispersion relations for spin up and spin down electrons, : where the second term accounts for the exchange energy, () is the dimensionless density() of spin up (down) electrons and is the dispersion relation of spinless electrons where the electron-electron interaction is disregarded. If is fixed, can be used to calculate the total energy of the system as a function of its polarization . If the lowest total energy is found for P=0, the system prefers to remain paramagnetic but for larger values of I, polarized ground states occur. It can be shown that for : the P=0 state will spontaneously pass into a polarized one. This is the Stoner criterion, expressed in terms of the P=0 density of states() at the Fermi level . Note that a non-zero P state may be favoured over P=0 even before the Stoner criterion is fulfilled. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Stoner criterion」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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