Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-condensed-matter-physics-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2017/3/c/solution

Within the stipulated localized, one-moment-per-atom spin model, the number density follows directly from mass density and molar mass:
The face-centered cubic lattice is consistent with four atoms per conventional unit cell; no additional factor four is needed once has been obtained from the density. The Curie constant is . Identifying the model's with the specified Curie temperature gives
At very low temperature, a fully ordered single domain has . Its Weiss molecular field is
The cancellation of in the middle expression provides a useful check. The ordinary magnetostatic scale is only , smaller by the factor . Thus is not a plausible ordinary self-generated dipolar magnetic field of the nickel moments. It represents the exchange interaction energy in field units, not an additional Maxwell field of that magnitude. This does not assert that such large externally generated fields are forbidden. Nickel is an itinerant ferromagnet; the imposed one--per-atom model is an estimate rather than its measured microscopic moment.

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