Zeeman Energy
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Zeeman energy is the potential energy of a magnetised body in an external magnetic field. It is named after the dutch physicist Pieter Zeeman
, and closely related to the Zeeman effect
. In SI units, it is given by
where HExt is the external field, M the local magnetisation, and the integral is done over the volume of the body.
Pieter Zeeman
Pieter Zeeman was a Dutch physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Hendrik Lorentz for his discovery of the Zeeman effect.-Childhood and youth:...
, and closely related to the Zeeman effect
Zeeman effect
The Zeeman effect is the splitting of a spectral line into several components in the presence of a static magnetic field. It is analogous to the Stark effect, the splitting of a spectral line into several components in the presence of an electric field...
. In SI units, it is given by
where HExt is the external field, M the local magnetisation, and the integral is done over the volume of the body.