Nature Communications (Sep 2018)

Nonlocal electron correlations in an itinerant ferromagnet

  • Christian Tusche,
  • Martin Ellguth,
  • Vitaliy Feyer,
  • Alexander Krasyuk,
  • Carsten Wiemann,
  • Jürgen Henk,
  • Claus M. Schneider,
  • Jürgen Kirschner

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05960-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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The consequences of electron-electron interactions are difficult to calculate reliably but this is needed to understand important physical properties such as ferromagnetism. Tusche et al. show that interaction effects in cobalt are nonlocal, presenting a challenge to future theoretical approaches.