On the diamagnetism of free electrons
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The effect of proximity to an infinite potential wall boundary on the elgenvalues of single particle free electron states in a magnetic field is calculated. A general method for calculating the number of states below a specified energy is described and the diamagnetic susceptibility is calculated for three approximations, It is found that the Landau approximation gives surprisingly good results considering its simplicity. A classification of much of the important work in this subject is presented in the introduction, and a possible discrepancy in the usual applications of the WKB approximation is discussed in an appendix.
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Lane, Eric Trent. "On the diamagnetism of free electrons." (1963) Master’s Thesis, Rice University. https://hdl.handle.net/1911/89839.