居里-外斯定律
居禮-外斯定律為居里定律的修正公式，用來補足該公式的不足。當一物質的溫度大於居里溫度(formula_1)時，其磁化率formula_2與溫度formula_3的關係式為： 其中：
根據該定律，當formula_10時，磁化率為無窮大。而當低於此溫度時，鐵磁性物質將會自發磁化。
一個磁性物質的磁化向量(或稱磁化強度)代表單位體積該物質的磁矩強度。而磁矩可能由原子內的電子運動或者是自旋所產生。而淨磁化向量可能由外加磁場誘導產生，甚至可能不需要施加外加磁場也能產生磁化向量(例如足夠低溫狀態下的鐵)，其中後者被稱之為自發磁化。
而其他與鐵擁有同樣性質的物質，如鎳與磁鐵礦，被稱之為鐵磁性物質。鐵磁性物質在足夠低的溫度下將會不須施加外部磁場也會產生磁性，而該臨界溫度稱之為居禮溫度。
有许多材料的磁化特性在居里点附近显现出明显的敏感性，而由于居里-韦斯定律基于平均场近似而无法描述这种现象。 In many materials the Curie–Weiss law fails to describe the susceptibility in the immediate vicinity of the Curie point, since it is based on a mean-field approximation. Instead, there is a critical behavior of the form
with the critical exponent . However, at temperatures the expression of the Curie–Weiss law still holds true, but with replaced by a temperature that is somewhat higher than the actual Curie temperature. Some authors call the Weiss constant to distinguish it from the temperature of the actual Curie point.
According to Bohr–van Leeuwen theorem when statistical mechanics and classical mechanics are applied consistently, the thermal average of the magnetization is always zero. Magnetism cannot be explained without quantum mechanics. However we list some classical approaches to it as they are easy to understand and relate to even though they are incorrect.
The magnetic moment of a free atom is due to the orbital angular momentum and spin of its electrons and nucleus. When the atoms are such that their shells are completely filled they do not have any net magnetic dipole moment in the absence of external magnetic field. When present, such field distorts the trajectories (classical concept) of the electrons so that the applied field could be opposed as predicted by the Lenz's law. In other words the net magnetic dipole induced by the external field is in the opposite direction and such materials are repelled by it. These are called diamagnetic materials.
Sometimes an atom has a net magnetic dipole moment even in the absence of an external magnetic field. The contributions of the individual electrons and nucleus to the total angular momentum do not cancel each other. This happens when the shells of the atoms are not fully filled up (Hund's Rule). A collection of such atoms however may not have any net magnetic moment as these dipoles are not aligned. An external magnetic field may serve to align them to some extent and develop a net magnetic moment per volume. Such alignment is temperature dependent as thermal agitation acts to disorient the dipoles. Such materials are called paramagnetic.
In some materials, the atoms (with net magnetic dipole moments) can interact with each other to align themselves even in the absence of any external magnetic field when the thermal agitation is low enough. Alignment could be parallel (ferromagnetism) or anti-parallel. In case of anti-parallel, the dipole moments may or may not cancel each other (antiferromagnetism, ferrimagnetism).
We take a very simple situation in which each atom can be approximated as a two state system. The thermal energy is so low that the atom is in ground state. In this ground state the atom is assumed to have no net orbital angular momentum but only one unpaired electron to give it a spin of half. In the presence of an external magnetic field the ground state will split into two states having energy difference proportional to the applied field. The spin of the unpaired electron is parallel to the field in the higher energy state and anti-parallel in the lower one.
A density matrix, formula_12, is a matrix that describes a quantum system in a mixed state, a statistical ensemble of several quantum states (here several similar 2-state atoms). This should be contrasted with a single state vector that describes a quantum system in a pure state. The expectation value of a measurement, formula_13, over the ensemble is formula_14. In terms of a complete set of states, formula_15, one can write
Von Neumann’s equation tells us how the density matrix evolves with time.
In equilibrium, one has formula_18, and the allowed density matrices are  formula_19. The canonical ensemble has  formula_20 where formula_21.
For the 2-state system, we can write formula_22. Here formula_23 is the gyromagnetic ratio. Hence formula_24, and
From which
In the presence of a uniform external magnetic field formula_27 along the z-direction, the Hamiltonian of the atom changes by where formula_29 are positive real numbers which are independent of which atom we are looking at but depends on the mass and the charge of the electron. formula_30 corresponds to individual electrons of the atom.
We apply second order perturbation theory to this situation. This is justified by the fact that even for highest presently attainable field strengths, the shifts in the energy level due to formula_31 is quite small w.r.t. atomic excitation energies. Degeneracy of the original Hamiltonian is handled by choosing a basis which diagonalizes formula_31 in the degenerate subspaces. Let formula_33 be such a basis for the state of the atom (rather the electrons in the atom). Let formula_34 be the change in energy in formula_35. So we get In our case we can ignore formula_37 and higher order terms. We get
In case of diamagnetic material, the first two terms are absent as they don't have any angular momentum in their ground state. In case of paramagnetic material all the three terms contribute.
So far we have assumed that the atoms do not interact with each other. Even though this is a reasonable assumption in case of diamagnetic and paramagnetic substances, this assumption fails in case of ferromagnetism where the spins of the atom try to align with each other to the extent permitted by the thermal agitation. In this case we have to consider the Hamiltonian of the ensemble of the atom. Such a Hamiltonian will contain all the terms described above for individual atoms and terms corresponding to the interaction among the pairs of atom. Ising model is one of the simplest approximation of such pairwise interaction.
Here the two atoms of a pair are at formula_40. Their interaction formula_41 is determined by their distance vector formula_42. In order to simplify calculation it is often assumed that interaction happens between neighboring atoms only and formula_41 is a constant. The effect of such interaction is often approximated as a mean field and in our case the Weiss field.
The Curie-Weiss Law is an adapted version of Curie's Law, which for a paramagnetic material may be written in SI units as
Here µ is the permeability of free space; "M" the magnetization (magnetic moment per unit volume), is the magnetic field, and "C" the material-specific Curie constant:
where is Boltzmann's constant, the number of magnetic atoms (or molecules) per unit volume, the Landé g-factor, the Bohr magneton, the angular momentum quantum number.
For the Curie-Weiss Law the total magnetic field is where is the Weiss molecular field constant and then
which can be rearranged to get
which is the Curie-Weiss Law
where the Curie Temperature is