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THE striking periodic field dependence of susceptibility found by de Haas and van Alphen1 in bismuth was for a long time regarded as just another anomalous property of bismuth, and although the theory of Peierls2, Blackman3 and Landau4 suggested that it was an effect to be expected in principle for all metals, it was believed that it was only in bismuth that the conditions were suitable for the effect to be observable in practice. The recent discovery of very similar behaviour in zinc by Marcus5 followed by the more detailed experiments of Sydoriak and Robinson6, and Mackinnon7, suggested, however, that the effect might occur in other metals too, and a systematic investigation has accordingly been undertaken.
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de Haas and van Alphen, Leiden Comm. No. 220d (1932).
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Blackman, Proc. Roy. Son., A, 166, 1 (1938).
See appendix to Shoenberg, Proc. Roy. Soc., A, 170, 341 (1939).
Marcus, Phys. Rev., 71, 559 (1947).
Sydoriak and Robinson, Phys. Rev., 75, 118 (1949).
Mackinnon, Proc. Phys. Soc., B, 62, 170 (1949).
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SHOENBERG, D. Magnetic Properties of Metal Single Crystals at Low Temperatures. Nature 164, 225–226 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164225a0
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