Talk:Stoner criterion

Latest comment: 6 months ago by 67.198.37.16 in topic Sign error?

Sign error?

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Shouldn't the sign before the   in

 

be the other way around? If we for example assume a fully polarized state with  , then we get

 

with the total energy

 .

In general we have

 .

But that means that the polarization will always increase the total energy. Only a negative   can lead to ferromagnetism.Jan Krieg (talk) 14:55, 9 April 2014 (UTC)Reply

It would appear that the above problem with the article was fixed sometime in the past. So this is no longer an issue. 67.198.37.16 (talk) 17:09, 15 May 2024 (UTC)Reply