Round 11: Tossup 15

At low temperature, this quantity equals its value at absolute zero times the expression “1 minus temperature over critical temperature (-5[1])raised to the three-halves power.” Between Bloch domains, this vector rotates continuously about the normal of the Bloch wall plane. The volume bound (-5[1])current density equals the curl of this quantity. This quantity is the order parameter of the Ising model, in which it spontaneously emerges as temperature is decreased in a phase transition. The H-field equals the B-field divided by the permeability of free space minus this quantity. When increasing the applied field no longer increases this quantity, a ferromagnet has become saturated. For 10 points, name this vector defined as the magnetic dipole moment per unit volume, the magnetic analog of electric polarization. ■END■ (10[1]0[3])

ANSWER: magnetization [accept magnetize or magnetized; accept magnetic polarization until “electric polarization” is read; prompt on magnetic dipole moment; prompt on M; reject “polarization”]
<DM, Physics> | Packet M - Columbia A, Ohio State A, Maryland A, Toronto C, Clemson A, Notre Dame A
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Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardConv. %Neg %Avg. Buzz
California (South)Main Site450%50%125.00
CanadaMain Site1040%30%91.00
Lower Mid-AtlanticMain Site70%0%
Lower Mid-AtlanticMain Site70%14%
MidwestMain Site863%0%80.40
NortheastMain Site520%40%125.00
OverflowMain Site30%67%
UKMain Site1242%33%93.00