Reversible Susceptibility of Ferromagnetics

Abstract

An expression is given relating the magnetization dependence of the reversible susceptibility normal to the field direction to that of the parallel reversible susceptibility. Modification of these susceptibility dependences due to the trapping of domain walls in metastable positions by potential holes is considered. The macroscopic magnetization is expressed in terms of a distribution of potential holes by an argument analogous to that of a "mean free path." The desirability of further examination of this approach is discussed. The reversible susceptibilities of three ferrite specimens were measured and found to compare favorably with the theory.