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The exchange term

The exchange term is given by

The electron gas parameter, , the spin polarization, , and the ferromagnetic and paramagnetic exchange energies, are defined as

and is given by

where n is the electron number density (implicitly a function of the spatial coordinates), and and its corresponding spin-up and spin-down components ().



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