Surface charge and surface current densities at material boundaries
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICS(2024)
摘要
In electromagnetism, materials with a polarization density P--> or a magnetization density M--> are known to exhibit a bound surface charge density sigma(b) = P--> center dot n or a surface current density kappa(->)(b) = M--> x(n) , respectively, where n is the unit vector perpendicular to the material boundary surface, directed outward. These expressions can be obtained from volume integrations for the electric potential V, or the magnetic vector potential A( ->), in which the integrals are restricted to the material volumes delimited by their respective boundaries. In that case, applying the divergence theorem leads to surface integrals on material boundaries and to the above-mentioned surface quantities. In this paper, a simple derivation is presented, which shows that both sigma b and kappa -> b are included in the expressions for the volume charge or current densities, provided that the divergence and curl operators are evaluated at the boundary so as to account for discontinuities at interfaces.
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