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Past exam of the condensed matter physics course of the University of Oxford 2019 4 d Solution by
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Add the electronic diamagnetism of each helium atom to the nuclear magnetic susceptibility, using the same for both contributions in the helium-3 sample:The density cancels when the two terms balance. The sign-change temperature in the independent-atom approximation is thereforeNo numerical atomic radius was supplied, so the exact numerical value remains conditional on that electronic length scale. Taking , where is the Bohr radius, gives . A slightly more explicit estimate uses the helium variational effective charge , for which a hydrogenic orbital has , givingAbove this scale the electronic contribution is negative and dominates; below it the positive nuclear contribution dominates within the independent-moment approximation. The estimate is not a precision prediction of a real interacting helium phase.
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