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Landau counts the partly discrete quantum energies of nonrelativistic electrons in a uniform magnetic field and derives a nonzero orbital diamagnetic response, distinct from spin paramagnetism, with an explicit smooth-field approximation and separate conjectures about real materials and transport.
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Landau counts the partly discrete quantum energies of nonrelativistic electrons in a uniform magnetic field and derives a nonzero orbital diamagnetic response, distinct from spin paramagnetism, with an explicit smooth-field approximation and separate conjectures about real materials and transport. The model concerns a quantum electron gas in the stated magnetic-field, thermodynamic and statistical setting. Orbital quantization and spin contributions must be distinguished. Interactions, lattice effects and arbitrary material susceptibility are outside the idealized calculation. Later oscillation theory and experiments remain separate.
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Contributors
- L. Landau · SCIENCE: Original source-listed scientific author of this scoped work; byline does not determine effort fractions.
- L. Landau, Diamagnetismus der Metalle; exact 1930 original hosted in Gilles Montambaux physics-history collection
- Publisher-deposited identity for the exact 1930 Landau diamagnetism paper
- Montambaux 2020 two-page physics history: magnetic levels, diamagnetism and quantum oscillations
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