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UFN, 2021 Volume 191, Number 1, Pages 3–29 (Mi ufn6672)

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Measurements of the magnetic properties of conduction electrons

V. M. Pudalov

Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

Abstract: We consider various methods and techniques that are used in experimental condensed matter physics for measuring electron magnetization and susceptibility. The list of considered methods for macroscopic measurements includes magnetomechanical, electromagnetic, modulation-type, and thermodynamic methods based on chemical potential variation measurements. We also consider local methods of magnetic measurements based on the spin Hall effect and nitrogen-substituted vacancies (NV centers). Scanning probe magnetometers–microscopes are considered, such as the magnetic resonance force microscope, SQUID microscope, and Hall microscope. The review focuses on the electron spin magnetization measurements in nonmagnetic materials and systems, particularly in low-dimensional electron systems in semiconductors and in nanosystems that have come to the forefront in recent years.

Keywords: spin magnetization, spin susceptibility, conduction electrons, measurements of magnetic properties.

PACS: 07.55.Jg, 75.70.-i, 85.75.-d

Received: October 4, 2019
Revised: May 2, 2020
Accepted: May 22, 2020

DOI: 10.3367/UFNr.2020.05.038771


 English version:
Physics–Uspekhi, 2021, 64:1, 3–27

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