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| | metallic ferromagnetism |
 | | In the conventional view of metallic ferromagnetism, it is driven by 'exchange energy' between conduction electrons in rigid bands. |
 | | We have proposed an alternative way to understand the origin of ferromagnetism in metals, namely that it is driven by effective mass reduction, or equivalently band broadening, or 'undressing' of carriers, that occurs upon spin polarization. |
 | | Superconductivity and Ferromagnetism from Effective Mass Reduction, presented at the 6th International Conference on Materials and Mechanisms of Superconductivity, Houston, February 2000, Physica C 341-348, 211 (2000). |
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