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- From: columbus@strident.think.com (Michael Weiss)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Ferromagnetism (was: Compelling Mysteries)
- Date: 10 Nov 92 14:13:49
- Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
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- Message-ID: <COLUMBUS.92Nov10141349@strident.think.com>
- References: <1992Nov10.151421.11274@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- In-reply-to: crb7q@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU's message of Tue, 10 Nov 1992 15:14:21 GMT
-
- In article <1992Nov10.151421.11274@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- crb7q@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Cameron Randale Bass) writes:
-
- Now surely many of the people reading here have a physical problem
- that is compelling enough to discuss; compelling enough to wonder
- aloud what the ultimate solution might be....
-
- Not a compelling mystery, but I was wondering what the current status is of
- explanations of ferromagnetism from "first principles". I remember reading
- in Feynmann that Ising-model type calculations at the time were giving the
- wrong sign for iron. However, that was nearly 30 years ago. What's the
- current scoop?
-