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Past exam of the condensed matter physics course of the University of Oxford 2018 4 c Solution by
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The specified two-direction constraint permits magnetic moments , withwhere is the Bohr magneton. There are four magnetic gadolinium ions per conventional face-centered cubic lattice cell; the closed-shell nitrogen ions add no local spin moment. Hence the magnetic-ion number density isAt high temperature, neglect interactions and use . The one-ion partition function and mean magnetic dipole moment areIn the weak-magnetic field limit, , so . Thus the dimensionless SI magnetic susceptibility is , withThe coefficient has units of kelvin. The unrestricted-spin expression proportional to is inappropriate here: the source explicitly retains only the two orientations with . In this two-state Curie law, the squared axial moment is .
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