Conditions for noncollinear instabilities of ferromagnetic materials

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 10, 2004, Pages

  Lizárraga, Raquel ^a   Nordström, Lars ^a   Bergqvist, Lars ^a   Bergman, Anders ^a   Sjöstedt, Elisabeth ^a   Mohn, Peter ^a   Eriksson, Olle ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FERMI LEVEL; HAMILTONIANS; LATTICE CONSTANTS; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; MAGNETIZATION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PHASE TRANSITIONS; TOPOLOGY;

ELECTRON BANDS; FERMI-SURFACES; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIAL; MAGNETIC COUPLING;

FERROMAGNETISM;

EID: 19544393143     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.107205     Document Type: Article

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