Section outline

  • Few concepts about Magnetism in solids; in particular:

    Basic concepts: Magnetization density, Susceptibility; ferromagnetism, paramagnetism, diamagnetism.

    Atomic hamiltonian in a magnetic field. Composition of angular momenta, filling of the electronic shells and spectral terms; Hund's rules. Larmoor diamagnetism. Van Vleck paramagnetism.

    Susceptibility of metals: Pauli paramagnetism.