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maximum (about Tc 0.022t) at n 0.92. The T = 0 moment is large

N N

and it may be near the Nagaoka limit35.

The strong-coupling phase boundaries can be traced by determining
where the susceptibilities given in (10.80) and (10.81) diverge. The re-
sult is shown by the curves A (boundary of the FM phase) and B (part
of the boundary of the AFM phase) in Fig. 10.17. The lower part of the
AFM phase is bounded by curve C, the result of a small-U calculation
[188]. B and C do not match properly since they are derived in approxi-
mations which are valid in different limits; nevertheless, the figure gives
a good impression of the extent of the AFM phase. Though the bound-
aries are derived by extrapolation from finite-T results, we should not
hesitate to accept Fig. 10.17 as one preliminary version of the ground
state phase diagram. A different version, based on QMC which is an
intermediate-coupling scheme, would show AFM and incommensurate
SDW phases, but no FM [118, 3831. It remains to be seen what an
all-encompassing phase diagram will look like.
In its gross features, the phase diagram shown in Fig. 10.17 is not
unlike the variationally derived Fig. 10.10. Let us, however, point to
the differences. Now we find a regime where the PM phase protrudes in
between the FM and AFM phases. This has become possible because
the ferromagnetic area, though horizontally almost as broad as in the
Gutzwiller theory, has been pushed to higher values of U . Ferromag-
netism seems to be a marginally surviving strong-coupling phenomenon
whose driving force is the (projected) kinetic energy. This should be
contrasted with the robustness of itinerant ferromagnetism in the fcc
lattice (see Sec. 8.4 and, in particular, Fig. 8.8).
Our discussion of the variational results showed that away from half-
filling, the homogeneous AFM phase is likely to be unstable against
phase segregation. DMFT has not yet addressed this question at strong
and intermediate couplings, but there are results for the weak coupling
limit where segregation occurs in an extremely small vicinity of n = 1.
As a prelude, let us discuss exact half-filling.
It follows from the perfect nesting property that at n = 1 for all
351n sections 8.4 and 10.6.4, we learned about some cogent arguments why the
Nagaoka limit cannot be reached. Extrapolation from the finite-T results of [308]
does not allow detecting a small deviation of the order of magnitude shown in (10.54).