Broken-symmetry states in solids with multiple bands

Abstract
Calculations are presented which show that an interacting d-electron system can exhibit more general ground states than predicted by a simple Stoner theory of ferromagnetism, which usually neglects effects of d-band degeneracy. The existence of five d subbands leads to a situation where the interaction first changes the population of subbands without destroying spin degeneracy, and thus produces a less metallic but still paramagnetic state. Ferromagnetism occurs for larger values of the interaction. Numerically the calculations are performed for the canonical d bands of face-centered- and body-centered-cubic structures.

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