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Publication
Physical Review Letters
Paper
Singular volume dependence of transition-metal magnetism
Abstract
The transition from nonmagnetic to magnetic behavior in transition-metal ferromagnets is studied by analysis of all possible volume evolutions of the variation of the total energy with magnetic moment. In contrast to a large body of previous work, magnetic transitions are shown to be necessarily singular, and usually multivalued and discontinuous. Self-consistent spin-polarized energy-band calculations for bcc nickel, fcc cobalt, bcc vanadium, and fcc iron are presented as examples supporting and illustrating the general conclusions. © 1986 The American Physical Society.