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6. A system of noninteracting local magnetic moments in an external magnetic field. Curie law
Having discussed the behavior of a single local magnetic moment in
an external magnetic field H , we now turn to a macroscopic system of N 1 local magnetic moments in a solid. Our purpose is to calculate
the experimentally measured magnetization M as a function of H and T.
Two types of interactions contribute to the total energy E of such a system: 1) the interaction of each magnetic moment with the magnetic field; 2) the interaction of the magnetic moments to one another, so that
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Let every magnetic moment in the system be associated with spin S =1
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7. Effective Weiss field
At H = 0 , magnetization M of a system of noninteracting local magnetic moments is zero at any temperature, see Eq. (6.6). Meanwhile,
there exist materials (ferromagnets) for which M ≠ 0 at H = 0 provid-
ed the temperature is below some characteristic value θ called the Curie temperature. It seems reasonable to assume that the failure to explane the occurrence of such materials within the model of noninteracting moments is a consequence of ignoring the interaction of magnetic moments with each other.
Weiss was the first who appreciated this. He noted that once the magnetic field H is applied to the sample, each moment µi interacts
not only with this field but with the field created by all other moments µk ≠i as well. Since, first, the magnetic field induced in the sample by an
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