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In general, without an external electric field there is also no polarization. Concerning the origin of the polarization, we have to distinguish two kinds of polarization. On the one hand, there is the deformation polarization. In this case, in the volume of matter (dielectric) considered there are originally no electric dipole moments; these are generated only by the deformation of the atoms (or molecules) by an applied electric field. An example is shown in Figure 6.1.A neutral atom consists of a negative electronic shell and a positively charged nucleus. Due to the applied external field, the negative charges are displaced against the positive nucleus so that a dipole moment is induced.
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Greiner, W. (1998). Simple Dielectrics and the Susceptibility. In: Classical Electrodynamics. Theoretical Physics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0587-6_6
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