Exact, closed expressions are obtained for the perpendicular and parallel susceptibilities of the one-dimensional spin-1/2 Ising model (i) with nearest neighbor interactions in a uniform magnetic field and (ii) with next-nearest neighbor interactions but without the magnetic field, in the thermodynamic limit. Graphs of the susceptibilities as a function of temperature for various magnetic field strengths in (i), and as a function of different ratios of the interaction strengths in (ii), are discussed.
We study the behavior of ultracold bosonic gases in the critical region above the Bose-Einstein condensation in the presence of an artificial magnetic field,
Bart. We show that the condensate fluctuations above the critical temperature
Tc cause the fluctuational susceptibility, ${\ensuremath{\chi}}_{\mathrm{fl}}$, of a uniform gas to have a stronger power-law divergence than in an analogous superconducting system. Measuring such a divergence opens new ways of exploring critical properties of ultracold gases and an opportunity for an accurate determination of
Tc. We describe a method of measuring ${\ensuremath{\chi}}_{\mathrm{fl}}$ which requires a constant gradient in
Bart and suggest a way of creating such a field in experiment.
Abstract This chapter discusses the magnetic properties of interacting Fermi gases. It considers the transition to the ferromagnetic phase (itinerant ferromagnetism) of a repulsive Fermi gas as a consequence of the Stoner instability. The dependence of the magnetic susceptibility on the relevant interaction coupling constant is explicitly discussed. The chapter then investigates the competition between superfluidity and ferromagnetism and the nature of the Clogston–Chandrasekhar transition, both in uniform and harmonically trapped Fermi gases, with special focus on the behaviour at unitarity, where systematic experimental data are available. It finally addresses the problem of the polaron in highly polarized configurations and the transition from the polaron to molecular binding along the BCS–BEC crossover.