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Pauli paramagnetism and Landau diamagnetism

© 2009 Uspekhi Fizicheskikh Nauk and P N Lebedev Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
, , Citation Eduard G Batyev 2009 Phys.-Usp. 52 1245 DOI 10.3367/UFNe.0179.200912i.1333

1063-7869/52/12/1245

Abstract

The Landau diamagnetism of conduction electrons at sufficiently high temperatures (larger than the Landau level spacing but smaller than the Fermi energy) is considered using the analogy with Pauli paramagnetism. An expression obtained for the diamagnetic susceptibility is identical to the well-known Landau result. While the model describing free particles assumes a quadratic dispersion law, the difference between the effective mass of a carrier and electron mass is taken into account.

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