Paramagnetism of hot magnetic neutron gas

Spontaneous magnetization and susceptibility of a noninteracting system of chargeless relativistic spin-1/2 magnetic moments in the presence of an intense magnetic field are calculated. We find that spontaneous magnetization is unlikely to occur and that the susceptibility parameter (chi) obeys Curie-type behavior at high temperature (T), namely chi1/2N/kT)μ/sub N/ 2, where N is the number density, k is the Boltzmann constant, and μ/sub N/ is the anomalous magnetic moment of the spin-1/2 object. These results are of direct interest to a neutron star where neutrons are considered to be the predominant constituent of matter and on its surface a magnetic field of strength approx.1013 G is present. We also obtain the temperature-dependent corrections to the energy and number density of an ultradegenerate cold neutron star, which are necessary in connection with the equation of state of a hot neutron star