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THE de Haas – van Alphen effect (periodic field dependence of magnetic susceptibility) has been found in aluminium and antimony single crystals at 4.2° K. and lower temperatures. The effect depends in a complicated way on the direction of the magnetic field, and there are complicated modulation effects similar to those previously found in other metals1. Typical values of the period at 15,000 gauss are 400 gauss in aluminium and 270 gauss in antimony; the amplitude in both metals increases by a factor of order 4 when the temperature is reduced from 4.2° K. to 1.5° K. Aluminium is the first metal of cubic symmetry in which the effect has been found.
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Dingle, R. B., and Shoenberg, D., Nature, 166, 652 (1950).
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SHOENBERG, D. De Haas – van Alphen Effect in Aluminium and Antimony. Nature 167, 646 (1951). https://doi.org/10.1038/167646b0
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