The magnetization M of a dielectric is defined by
where N is the number of magnetic dipoles per unit volume and is the magnetic dipole moment per dipole (Griffiths 1998, p. 220). The magnetization can also be written as
where is the magnetizability.
The effect of magnetization is to induce bound current densities
inside a material and a bound surface current
on its surface, where is the outward-pointing unit normal.
Bound Current Density, Bound Surface Current, Brillouin Function, H, Landau-Lifschitz-Gilbert Equation, Magnetic Dipole, Magnetic Dipole Moment, Magnetic Field, Magnetizability
References
Griffiths, D. J. Introduction to Electrodynamics, 3rd ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1998.
