The Faraday Effect as a Two-State Quantum Process
Quantum Physics
2024-10-04 v2
Abstract
We show that the Faraday effect can be derived from a simple two-state model. This approach uses a quantized electromagnetic field and does not make reference to differences in refractive indices of left- and right-circularly polarized light. Instead it treats the effect as a forward Rayleigh scattering process between two orthogonal modes of the quantized field, and thus emphasises the quantum-mechanical aspects of the phenomenon.
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@article{arxiv.2410.01612,
title = {The Faraday Effect as a Two-State Quantum Process},
author = {Benjamin W. Butler},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.01612},
year = {2024}
}