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Stability of the high-density ferromagnetic ground state of a chargeless, magnetic-dipolar, quantum Fermi liquid
1Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-2330, USA. mahanti@pa.msu.edu
Abstract:
We obtain the best upper bound for the ground-state energy of a system of chargeless fermions of mass m, spin s=1/2 , and magnetic moment mus[over ] as a function of its density in the fully spin-polarized Hartree-Fock determinantal state, specified by a prolate spheroidal plane-wave single-particle occupation function n_(k[over ]) , by minimizing the total energy E at each density with respect to the variational spheroidal deformation parameter beta(2),0< or =beta(2)< or =1 . We find that at high densities, this spheroidal ferromagnetic state is the most likely ground state of the system, but it is still unstable towards the infinite-density collapse. This optimized ferromagnetic state is shown to be a stable ground state of the dipolar system at high densities, if one has an additional repulsive short-range hardcore interaction of sufficient strength and nonvanishing range.
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