Paramagnetic | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-08

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Paramagnetic


00:02:11 1 Relation to electron spins
00:04:02 1.1 Delocalization
00:05:31 1.1.1 s and p electrons
00:06:12 1.1.2 d and f electrons
00:06:51 1.1.3 Molecular localization
00:07:49 2 Theory
00:08:19 2.1 Curie's law
00:12:51 2.2 Pauli paramagnetism
00:20:10 3 Examples of paramagnets
00:20:43 3.1 Systems with minimal interactions
00:23:30 3.2 Systems with interactions
00:26:10 3.3 Superparamagnets
00:27:18 4 See also



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Paramagnetism is a form of magnetism whereby certain materials are weakly attracted by an externally applied magnetic field, and form internal, induced magnetic fields in the direction of the applied magnetic field. In contrast with this behavior, diamagnetic materials are repelled by magnetic fields and form induced magnetic fields in the direction opposite to that of the applied magnetic field. Paramagnetic materials include most chemical elements and some compounds; they have a relative magnetic permeability slightly greater than 1 (i.e., a small positive magnetic susceptibility) and hence are attracted to magnetic fields. The magnetic moment induced by the applied field is linear in the field strength and rather weak. It typically requires a sensitive analytical balance to detect the effect and modern measurements on paramagnetic materials are often conducted with a SQUID magnetometer.
Paramagnetism is due to the presence of unpaired electrons in the material, so all atoms with incompletely filled atomic orbitals are paramagnetic.  Due to their spin, unpaired electrons have a magnetic dipole moment and act like tiny magnets.  An external magnetic field causes the electrons' spins to align parallel to the field, causing a net attraction.   Paramagnetic materials include aluminium, oxygen, titanium, and iron oxide (FeO).
Unlike ferromagnets, paramagnets do not retain any magnetization in the absence of an externally applied magnetic field because thermal motion randomizes the spin orientations. (Some paramagnetic materials retain spin disorder even at absolute zero, meaning they are paramagnetic in the ground state, i.e. in the absence of thermal motion.) Thus the total magnetization drops to zero when the applied field is removed. Even in the presence of the field there is only a small induced magnetization because only a small fraction of the spins will be oriented by the field. This fraction is proportional to the field strength and this explains the linear dependency. The attraction experienced by ferromagnetic materials is non-linear and much stronger, so that it is easily observed, for instance, in the attraction between a refrigerator magnet and the iron of the refrigerator itself.