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Korringa ratio of ferromagnetically correlated impure metals

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2009-10-31 v1

Abstract

The Korringa ratio, K\cal K, obtained by taking an appropriate combination of the Knight shift and nuclear spin-lattice relaxation time, is calculated at finite temperature, TT, in the three-dimensional electron gas model, including the electron-electron interaction, UU, and non-magnetic impurity scatterings. K\cal K varies in a simple way with respect to UU and TT; it decreases as UU is increased but increases as TT is raised. However, K\cal K varies in a slightly more complicated way with respect to the impurity scatterings; as the scattering rate is increased, K\cal K increases for small UU and low TT, but decreases for large UU or high TT regime. This calls for a more careful analysis when one attempts to estimate the Stoner factor from K\cal K.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0009053,
  title  = {Korringa ratio of ferromagnetically correlated impure metals},
  author = {Han-Oh Lee and Han-Yong Choi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0009053},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

7 pages including 3 figures. To be published in Phys. Rev. B, Dec. 1