Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2009-07-18
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
32 pages, 5 figures. Submitted to J.Phys.Condens.Matter
Scientific paper
The equilibrium susceptibility of uniaxial paramagnets is studied in a unified framework which permits to connect traditional results of the theory of quantum paramagnets, $\Sm=1/2, 1, 3/2$, ..., with molecular magnetic clusters, $\Sm\sim5, 10, 20$, all the way up, $\Sm=30, 50, 100$,... to the theory of classical superparamagnets. This is done using standard tools of quantum statistical mechanics and linear response theory (the Kubo correlator formalism). Several features of the temperature dependence of the susceptibility curves (crossovers, peaks, deviations from Curie law) are studied and their scalings with $\Sm$ identified and characterized. Both the longitudinal and transverse susceptibilities are discussed, as well as the response of the ensemble with anisotropy axes oriented at random. For the latter case a simple approximate formula is derived too, and its range of validity assessed, so it could be used in modelization of experiments.
Garcia-Palacios J. L.
Gong J. B.
Luis Fernando
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