Abstract
Relaxation of electronic spins in metals is significantly enhanced whenever a Fermi surface crosses Brillouin zone boundaries, special symmetry points, or lines of accidental degeneracy. A realistic calculation shows that if aluminum had one valence electron its spin relaxation would be slower by nearly 2 orders of magnitude. This not only solves a long-standing experimental puzzle, but also provides a way of tailoring spin dynamics of electrons in a conduction band.
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