Differential magnetic susceptibility (${\chi }_{\mathrm{diff}}={\left(\partial M/\partial H_{\mathrm{int}}\right)}_T$)

Differential magnetic susceptibility is the local slope at a specified bias magnetic field intensity, holding temperature and other stated constraints fixed. It equals volume magnetic susceptibility only for a linear response through the origin. For example, $M=M_s\tanh (H/H_s)$ has $M/H=(M_s/H_s)\tanh (x)/x$, but $dM/dH=(M_s/H_s)/{\cosh }^2(x)$, where $x=H/H_s$. At $x=1$ these are about $0.762$ and $0.420$ times their common zero-field slope. A finite sweep chord is another quantity, not automatically this derivative.

If the differentiated field is instead the internal magnetic flux density, the longitudinal chain rule applied to $B_{\mathrm{int}}={\mu }_0(H_{\mathrm{int}}+M)$ givesThis differs from the vacuum/applied-$B_0$ conversion in volume magnetic susceptibility. It assumes a differentiable single branch with locally invertible $B_{\mathrm{int}}(H_{\mathrm{int}})$.