Magnetic susceptibility and related properties of rare-earth crystals

Abstract

This paper has arisen from attempts to correlate the results of experiments on magnetic susceptibilities, specific heat and absorption spectra of rareearth crystals. No theory has yet been advanced which is capable of giving simultaneous quantitative numerical agreement on all these properties, nor indeed does it seem possible to develop such a theory. For reasons which we shall explain, it seems more likely that some of the data are wrong, or at least, that they have been wrongly interpreted. Many measurements have been made of the magnetic properties of hydrated rare-earth crystals. Accurate values of the mean molecular susceptibility, X , have been obtained over a temperature range from a few degrees absolute to room temperature, and the anisotropy of the susceptibility at room temperature has also been measured