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D P Young1, D Hall1, M E Torelli1
1NHMFL, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306, USA.
Abstract:
The magnetic properties of the ground state of a low-density free-electron gas in three dimensions have been the subject of theoretical speculation and controversy for seven decades. Not only is this a difficult theoretical problem to solve, it is also a problem which has not hitherto been directly addressed experimentally. Here we report measurements on electron-doped calcium hexaboride (CaB6) which, we argue, show that-at a density of 7× 1019 electrons cm-3-the ground state is ferromagnetically polarized with a saturation moment of 0.07 µB per electron. Surprisingly, the magnetic ordering temperature of this itinerant ferromagnet is 600 K, of the order of the Fermi temperature of the electron gas.
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