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The anomalous Hall effect (AHE), which in long-range ordered ferromagnets appears as a voltage transverse to the current and usually is proportional to the magnetization, often is believed to be of negligible size in antiferromagnets due to…

We theoretically study the inverse Faraday effect (IFE), i.e., photo-induced magnetization, in two-dimensional Rashba spin-orbit coupled electron systems irradiated by a circularly polarized light. The quantum master…

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An intriguing feature of spintronics is the use of pure spin-currents to manipulate magnetization, e.g., spin-currents can switch magnetization in spin-torque MRAM, a next-generation DRAM alternative. Giant spin-currents via the spin Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-15 Mathias Weiler , Justin M. Shaw , Hans T. Nembach , Thomas J. Silva

We demonstrate optical nonthermal excitation of exchange dominated spin waves of different orders in a magnetophotonic crystal. The magnetophotonic structure consists of a thin magnetic film and a Bragg stack of nonmagnetic layers to…

The magnetic circular dichroism and the Faraday rotation are the fundamental phenomena of great practical importance arising from the breaking of the time reversal symmetry by a magnetic field. In most materials the strength and the sign of…

The phonon inverse Faraday effect describes the emergence of a DC magnetization due to circularly polarized phonons. In this work we present a microscopic formalism for the phonon inverse Faraday effect. The formalism is based on…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-10 Natalia Shabala , R. Matthias Geilhufe

An analytic expression is given for the inverse Faraday effect, i.e. for the magnetization occurring in a transparent medium exposed to a circularly polarized high-frequency electromagnetic wave. Using a microscopic approach the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Hertel

We consider a localized electronic spin controlled by a circularly polarized optical beam and an external magnetic field. When the frequency of the beam is tuned near an optical resonance with a continuum of higher energy states, effective…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-27 Chen Sun , N. A. Sinitsyn

The anomalous Hall effect (AHE) is a topology-related transport phenomenon being of potential interest in spintronics, because this effect enables the efficient probe of magnetic orders (i.e., data readout in memory devices). It is well…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-19 Longju Yu , Hong Jian Zhao , Yurong Yang , Laurent Bellaiche , Yanming Ma

Electron correlation often gives birth to various orders in quantum materials. Recently, a strongly correlated kagome antiferromagnet FeGe is discovered to undergo a charge density wave transition inside the A-type antiferromagnetic state,…

The inverse Faraday effect is an opto-magnetic phenomenon that describes the ability of circularly polarized light to induce magnetism in solids. The capability of light to control magnetic order in solid state materials and devices is of…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-12-20 Víctor H. Ortiz , Shashi B. Mishra , Luat Vuong , Sinisa Coh , Richard B. Wilson

We show that a small conducting object, such as a nanosphere or a nanoring, embedded into or placed in the vicinity of the two-dimensional electron liquid (2DEL) and subjected to a circularly polarized electromagnetic radiation induces…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-12 S. O. Potashin , V. Yu. Kachorovskii , M. S. Shur

We predict a new type of ultrafast third-order nonlinearity of surface plasmon polaritons (SPP) in planar magneto-plasmonic structures caused by the inverse Faraday effect (IFE). Planar SPPs with a significant longitudinal component of the…

Optics · Physics 2018-07-19 Song-Jin Im , Chol-Song Ri , Kum-Song Ho , Joachim Herrmann

Inverse spin Hall effect (ISHE) in ferromagnetic metals (FM) can also be used to detect the spin current generated by longitudinal spin Seebeck effect in a ferromagnetic insulator YIG. However, anomalous Nernst effect(ANE) in FM itself…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-28 Hao Wu , Xiao Wang , Li Huang , Jianying Qin , Chi Fang , Xuan Zhang , Caihua Wan , Xiufeng Han

A circularly polarized light can induce a dissipationless dc current in a quantum nanoring which is responsible for a resonant helicity-driven contribution to magnetic moment. This current is not suppressed by thermal averaging despite its…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-30 K. L. Koshelev , V. Yu. Kachorovskii , M. Titov

Time-resolved Faraday rotation is used to measure the coherent electron spin precession in a GaAs/InGaAs quantum well below an interdigitated magnetized Fe grating. We show that the electron spin precession frequency can be modified by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Meier , G. Salis , C. Ellenberger , E. Gini , K. Ensslin

We study the influence of a DC bias voltage V on quantum interference corrections to the measured differential conductance in metallic mesoscopic wires and rings. The amplitude of both universal conductance fluctuations (UCF) and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. Terrier , D. Babic , C. Strunk , T. Nussbaumer , C. Schoenenberger

A linear stability analysis of the free surface of a horizontally unbounded ferrofluid layer of arbitrary depth subjected to vertical vibrations and a horizontal magnetic field is performed. A nonmonotonic dependence of the stability…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-07 V. V. Mekhonoshin , Adrian Lange

A new phenomenon is observed experimentally in a heavily doped asymmetric quantum-size structure in a magnetic field parallel to the quantum-well layers - a transverse magnetoresistance which is asymmetric in the field (there can even be a…

The observation of anomalously large polarization rotations in pump-probe experiments with circularly polarized light has recently challenged the conventional understanding of the inverse Faraday effect. The striking magnitude of these…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-27 Niccolò Sellati , Jacopo Fiore , Lara Benfatto