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Polarizability tensor of a strongly magnetized plasma and the polarization vectors and opacities of normal electromagnetic waves are studied for the conditions typical of neutron star atmospheres, taking account of partial ionization…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Y. Potekhin , Dong Lai , G. Chabrier , W. C. G. Ho

In this paper a detailed numerical study (in frames of the Slonczewski formalism) of magnetization oscillations driven by a spin-polarized current through a thin elliptical nanoelement is presented. We show that a sophisticated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. V. Berkov , N. L. Gorn

The polarization plane of the cosmic microwave background radiation can be rotated either in a magnetized plasma or in the presence of a quintessential background with pseudoscalar coupling to electromagnetism. A unified treatment of these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Massimo Giovannini

The modern theory of orbital magnetization (OM) was developed by using Wannier function method, which has a formalism similar with the Berry phase. In this manuscript, we perform a numerical study on the fate of the OM under disorder, by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-22 Si-Si Wang , Yan-Yang Zhang , Ji-Huan Guan , Yan Yu , Yang Xia , Shu-Shen Li

We propose a formal resource-theoretic approach to quantify the degree of polarization of two and three-dimensional random electromagnetic fields. This endows the space of spectral polarization matrices with the orders induced by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 G. M. Bosyk , G. Bellomo , A. Luis

The magnetic response of strongly localized electrons to a time-dependent vector potential is considered. The orbital magnetic moment of the system, away from steady-state conditions, is obtained. The expression involves the tunneling and…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Y. Galperin , O. Entin-Wohlman

We extend a microscopic theory of polarization and magnetization to include the spin degree of freedom of the electrons, introducing a general spin orbit coupling and Zeeman interaction term in the Hamiltonian. At finite frequencies and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-11 Alistair H. Duff , J. E. Sipe

We consider the contribution of electron-electron interactions to the orbital magnetization of a two-dimensional electron gas, focusing on the ballistic limit in the regime of negligible Landau-level spacing. This regime can be described by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. von Oppen , D. Ullmo , H. U. Baranger

The orbital motion of electrons in a three-dimensional solid can generate a pseudoscalar magnetoelectric coupling $\theta$, a fact we derive for the single-particle case using a recent theory of polarization in weakly inhomogeneous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-16 Andrew M. Essin , Joel E. Moore , David Vanderbilt

We develop a gauge-independent perturbation theory for the grand potential of itinerant electrons in two-dimensional tight-binding models in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field. At first order in the field, we recover the result…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-05 A. Raoux , F. Piéchon , J. N. Fuchs , G. Montambaux

In a collinear magnet, the predominant magnetic moments are collectively aligned along a specific spatial orientation, and this alignment may yield intriguing phenomena such as spin orientation driven polarization. It is well known that…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-12 Yixun Zhang , Longju Yu , Yizhou Tong , Ying Sun , Xu Li , Hong Jian Zhao , Yanming Ma

The orbital magnetization of the electron gas on a two-dimensional kagome lattice under a perpendicular magnetic field is theoretically investigated. The interplay between the lattice geometry and magnetic field induce nontrivial $k$-space…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-02-01 Zhigang Wang , Zi-Gang Yuan , Zhen-Guo Fu , Shu-Shen Li , Ping Zhang

A non-commutative formula for the isotropic magneto-electric response of disordered insulators under magnetic fields is derived using the methods of non-commutative geometry. Our result follows from an explicit evaluation of the Ito…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-02-12 Bryan Leung , Emil Prodan

We propose a nonlinear orbital magnetoelectric effect, which generates orbital magnetization quadratically in centrosymmetric materials where the linear orbital magnetoelectric effect is strictly forbidden. Using extended semiclassical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Jinxiong Jia , Zhenhua Qiao , Jian Wang

Application of Bardeen's tunneling theory to magnetic tunnel junctions having a general degree of atomic disorder reveals the close relationship between magneto-conduction and voltage-driven pseudo-torque, as well as the thickness…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Slonczewski

We examine and identify magnetoresistance mechanisms in 2D system containing a sizable concentration of magnetic ions. We argue that some of these mechanisms can serve as a tool to measure spin polarization. Lack of spin degeneracy and…

We consider a two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba's spin-orbit interaction and two in-plane potentials superimposed along directions perpendicular to each other. The first of these potentials is assumed to be a general periodic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-09-19 S. Smirnov , D. Bercioux , M. Grifoni

The strongly interacting system created in ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions behaves almost as an ideal fluid with rich patterns of the velocity field exhibiting strong vortical structure. Vorticity of the fluid, via spin-orbit coupling,…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2024-10-30 Takafumi Niida , Sergei A. Voloshin

We calculate the nucleons' electromagnetic polarizabilities in heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory including all terms to order ${\cal O} (q^4)$. The chiral prediction of the electric polarizabilities for the neutron and the proton are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-14 Véronique Bernard , Norbert Kaiser , Armin Schmidt , Ulf-G. Meißner

We consider a multiferroic chain with a linear magnetoelectric coupling induced by the electrostatic screening at the ferroelectric/ferromagnet interface. We study theoretically the dynamic ferroelectric and magnetic response to external…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-08-03 A. Sukhov , C. Jia , P. P. Horley , J. Berakdar