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ID: past-exam-of-the-general-relativity-and-cosmology-and-condensed-matter-physics-paper-of-part-b-of-the-physics-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2011/section-vi/8/unlettered-2/solution

Using the supplied iron parameters gives
An internal Weiss molecular field depends on temperature through . Its low-temperature saturation estimate uses :
At and above the zero-applied-field magnetization vanishes in this model, so this is a saturation estimate, not the field at .
Use the paper's stipulated face-centered cubic lattice, which has twelve nearest neighbours. The saturated one-ion alignment scale is
Dividing the effective field among twelve equivalent neighbours gives the per-bond exchange interaction scale
To specify the convention, write the Heisenberg model as , with dimensionless angular-momentum operators and each bond counted once. Then , so here. A convention with instead has . The total saturated interaction energy per ion is ; the factor of one half avoids counting each bond twice.

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