Magnetic susceptibility of metallic transition-metal dichalcogenides

Abstract
A tight-binding model has been used to estimate the anisotropy of the magnetic susceptibility of the metallic transition-metal dichalcogenides. The calculated anisotropies obtained are in qualitative agreement with experiment and can be interpreted in terms of the electronic structure of these compounds. It is expected that these results will make possible a more detailed interpretation of the changes in magnetic susceptibility which occur in these compounds upon transforming to a charge-density-wave state.