Transcription of Chapter 12
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The essential idea is that in theN limit of largesystems (on our own macroscopic scale) it is not onlyconvenient but essential to realize that matter will undergomathematically sharp, singular phase transitions to states inwhich the microscopic symmetries, and even the microscopicequations of motion, are in a sense violated. The symmetryleaves behind as its expression only certain characteristicbehaviors. P W Anderson, More is Different, Science177, 393(1972). Chapter 12 Thermodynamics in SolidsLodestones fragments of magnetic1 FeO+Fe2O3(Fe3O4) although known tothe ancients were, according to Pliny the Elder, first formally described in Greek6thcentury writings. By that time they were already the stuff of myth,superstition and amazing curative claims, some of which survive to this day.
Paramagnetism: In an external magnetic eld B the spin-state degeneracy 1 Named, as one story goes, for Magnus, the Greek shepherd who reported a eld of stones that drew the nails from his sandals.
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