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MAGNETISM ELECTRON TRANSPORT MAGNETORESISTIVE LANTHANUM CALCIUM MANGANITE

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54 Chapter 3<br />

is called the Stoner continuum. Collective, spin-wave excitations are not (yet)<br />

included. The mean field analysis [81] gives (M/M(0,0)) 2 = 1-(T/T C ) 2 +<br />

2χ(0,0)H/M.<br />

As expected from a Ginzberg-Landau/mean-field approximation section<br />

3.2.2.2.5, this formula predicts mean field exponents of β = 1/2 and γ = γ ′ = 1<br />

for T near T C , and linear M 2 vs. H/M Arrott plots. Above T C the inverse<br />

susceptibility is proportional to T 2 2<br />

-TC [81], which is in gross disagreement<br />

with the experimentally observed Curie-Weiss law (1/χ = T - T C ). The finite<br />

zero field susceptibility at T = 0, χ(0,0), is essentially the enhanced Pauli-<br />

susceptibility [83].<br />

Unlike the local moment model which requires the zero temperature<br />

saturation moment M(0,0) to be equal to the sum of all the moments, the<br />

band model allows for opposing moments in the minority band at T = 0 (ζ

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