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The de Haas-van Alphen Effect

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EXPERIMENTS by one of us1 on the de Haas–van Alphen effect in gallium, tin and graphite (periodic field-dependence of magnetic susceptibility of metal single crystals) have now been extended to higher fields (up to 15,800 gauss), to lower temperatures (down to 1.1° K.), and to other metals; at the same time the theory of the effect has been reconsidered. The present note gives a brief account of the new results.

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DINGLE, R., SHOENBERG, D. The de Haas-van Alphen Effect. Nature 166, 652–653 (1950). https://doi.org/10.1038/166652b0

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