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We investigate the photoinduced shift of the ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) frequency in magnets caused by the inverse Cotton-Mouton effect (ICME) under linearly polarized light. Using a Lagrangian description of magnetization dynamics, we…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-15 Nika Gribova , Anatoly Zvezdin , Shixun Cao , Vladimir Belotelov

We report two light-induced orbital magnetization effects in quantum Hall (QH) fluids, stemming from their transverse response. The first is a purely transverse contribution to the inverse Faraday effect (IFE), where circularly polarized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Gabriel Cardoso , Erlend Syljuåsen , Alexander V. Balatsky

In this letter we calculate the Inverse Cotton-Mouton Effect (ICME) for the vacuum following the predictions of Quantum ElectroDynamics. We compare the value of this effect for the vacuum with the one expected for atomic systems. We finally…

Optics · Physics 2011-03-28 C. Rizzo , A. Dupays , R. Battesti , M. Fouché , G. L. J. A. Rikken

Altermagnetism, a recently discovered collinear magnetic order with net zero magnetization but exhibits spin-splitting band structure, has attracted much research interest due to the rich fundamental physics and possible applications. In…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-16 Lijun Yang , Long Liang

We propose a mechanism for the inverse Faraday and the inverse Cotton--Mouton effects arising from quantum geometry, characterized by the quantum metric quadrupole and the weighted quantum metric. Within a semiclassical framework based on…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-15 Hiroki Yoshida , Takehito Yokoyama

The inverse Faraday effect (IFE), where a static magnetization is induced by circularly polarized light, offers a promising route to ultrafast control of spin states. Here we study the IFE in Mott insulators using the Floquet theory. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-06-02 Saikat Banerjee , Umesh Kumar , Shi-Zeng Lin

The Cotton-Mouton (CM) effect, referring to linear birefringence induced by a magnetic field, is usually very weak in natural materials. We propose theoretically that a giant CM effect may be achieved in the THz region with the suspension…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-28 Shu-guo Lei , Cheng-ping Huang

Generation of magneto-optic effects by the interaction of the CMB with cosmic magnetic fields is studied. Effects which generate polarization such as the Cotton-Mouton effect, vacuum polarization and photon-pseudoscalar mixing in external…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-24 Damian Ejlli

Generation of cosmic microwave background (CMB) elliptic polarization due to the Cotton-Mouton (CM) effect in a cosmic magnetic field is studied. We concentrate on the generation of CMB circular polarization and on the rotation angle of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-19 Damian Ejlli

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

The polarization dependence of magnon-photon scattering in an optical microcavity is reported. Due to the short cavity length, the mode-matching conditions found in previously explored, large path-length whispering gallery resonators are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-04 J. A. Haigh , A. Nunnenkamp , A. J. Ramsay

The magneto-optical and opto-magnetic effects describe the interaction of light with a magnetic medium. The most prominent examples are the Faraday and Cotton-Mouton effects that modify the transmission of light through a medium, and the…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-10-14 Dominik M. Juraschek , Prineha Narang , Nicola A. Spaldin

The inverse Faraday effect (IFE) refers to the generation of a DC magnetization by circularly polarized light through the transfer of optical angular momentum to electronic degrees of freedom. In conducting systems, this response can arise…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-16 Jaglul Hasan , Chandan Setty

Spin precession was nonthermally induced by an ultrashort laser pulse in orthoferrite DyFeO3 with a pump-probe technique. Both circularly and linearly polarized pulses led to spin precessions; these phenomena are interpreted as the inverse…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-04-13 Ryugo Iida , Takuya Satoh , Tsutomu Shimura , Kazuo Kuroda , B. A. Ivanov , Yusuke Tokunaga , Yoshinori Tokura

Recent theory of the light-induced medium magnetization (inverse Faraday effect, IFE) performed by a transversely-limited circularly-polarized light beam [Phys. Rev. B 91, 020411 (2015)] predicts the existence of a "demagnetization current"…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-08 Aleksandr Bekshaev

Graphene can be magnetized through nonlinear response of its orbital angular momentum to an intense circularly polarized light. This optomagnetic effect can be well exemplified by the Inverse Faraday Effect (IFE) where an…

Optics · Physics 2023-07-26 Sina Abedi , A. Hamed Majedi

The origin and properties of the transverse non-reciprocal magneto-optical (nMO) effect were studied. The transverse nMO effect occurs in the case when light propagates perpendicularly to the magnetic field. It was demonstrated that light…

Optics · Physics 2020-10-05 V. Zayets , H. Saito , S. Yuasa , K. Ando

The inverse Faraday effect is a magneto-optical process allowing the magnetization of matter by an optical excitation carrying a non-zero spin of light. In particular, a right circular polarization generates a magnetization in the direction…

Optics · Physics 2023-05-25 Ye Mou , Xingyu Yang , Bruno Gallas , Mathieu Mivelle

We present a microscopic theory for multiple light scattering occurring in inhomogeneous 3D media subject to an external magnetic field. Magneto-optical effects (the Faraday effect and the Cotton-Mouton effect) occur inside the small…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Bart A. van Tiggelen , Roger Maynard , Theo M. Nieuwenhuizen

Chiral magnetic effect (CME) is a macroscopic transport phenomenon induced by quantum anomaly in the presence of chiral imbalance and an external magnetic field. Relativistic heavy ion collisions provide the unique opportunity to look for…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-11-29 Dmitri E. Kharzeev , Jinfeng Liao , Shuzhe Shi
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