Solution

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Take two localized spin orientations with moments along the applied magnetic field. This assumes an electron-like spin factor of two. Their energies are , so the one-moment partition function is , with . The thermal mean moment is , and the spin-one-half paramagnetic magnetization is
For , . With the same SI convention and ,
This Curie law is a zero-field or weak-field susceptibility. At arbitrary field the differential response is , and saturates at ; extending the linear law to unlimited field would contradict that finite saturation magnetization.

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