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Magneto-optical effects like Kerr and Faraday rotations provide a direct probe of topological order in thin films of the magnetic topological insulator MnBi$_2$Te$_4$ (MBT). Motivated by recent experimental studies of spin-flip/flop…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Shahid Sattar , Roman Stepanov , A. H. MacDonald , C. M. Canali

The infrared (900-1100 cm-1) Faraday rotation and circular dichroism are measured in the normal state of underdoped High Tc superconductors and used to study the magneto-transport. YBa2Cu3O6+x thin films are investigated in the temperature…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 L. B. Rigal , D. C. Schmadel , H. D. Drew , B. Maiorov , E. Osquigil , J. S. Preston , R. Hughes , G. D. Gu

We delve into spin Hall effect in generic spin-orbit coupled two-dimensional fermionic systems. We derive analytically the spin-orbit force responsible for the spin Hall effect, and find that it has `Lorentz force'-like form. We also derive…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-02 Boudhayan Paul , Tarun Kanti Ghosh

We explore the magnetic properties of the Fermi-like liquid represented by the D3-D7' system. The system exhibits interesting magnetic properties such as ferromagnetism and an anomalous Hall effect, which are due to the Chern-Simons term in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 Niko Jokela , Gilad Lifschytz , Matthew Lippert

Using density functional theory calculations, we have found an enhanced magneto-optical Kerr effect in Fe/insulator interfaces. The results of our study indicate that interfacial Fe atoms in the Fe films have a low-dimensional nature, which…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-12-20 Bo Gu , Saburo Takahashi , Sadamichi Maekawa

A beam of linearly polarized light transmitted through magnetically biased graphene can have its axis of polarization rotated by several degrees after passing the graphene sheet. This large Faraday effect is due to the action of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-07-06 Jürgen Schiefele , Luis Martin-Moreno , Francisco Guinea

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

The influence of an external electric field on the spin dynamics of an electrically neutral Fermi liquid is considered, the mechanism of such an influence being the relativistic spin-orbital interaction. As a result, Leggett's equations for…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 P. L. Krotkov

The inverse Faraday effect, the ability of light to act as a source of magnetism, is a cornerstone of modern ultrafast optics. Harnessing this effect at the nanoscale promises to transform data storage and spintronics, yet its predictive…

A Hall effect due to spin chirality in mesoscopic systems is predicted. We consider a 4-terminal Hall system including local spins with geometry of a vortex domain wall, where strong spin chirality appears near the center of vortex. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jun-ichiro Ohe , Tomi Ohtsuki , Bernhard Kramer

The magneto-optical Kerr effect (MOKE) is often assumed to be proportional to the magnetisation of a magnetically ordered metallic sample; in metallic ferrimagnets with chemically distinct sublattices, such as rare-earth transition-metal…

Spin Hall Effect is relativistic quantum mechanical effect which enables non-magnetic materials show magnetic phenomena without the application of a magnetic field. With spin Hall Effect, one can realize spintronics devices operating purely…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-11 Dhavala Suri , R. S. Patel

Spin Hall effect at finite wave vector in a ferromagnetic conductor is theoretically studied by calculating the spin density as the linear response to an applied electric field. The cases of a spin-orbit interaction due to random impurities…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-17 Gen Tatara

A theoretical study is presented for the random aspect of an optical vortex inherent in the nonlinear birefringent Kerr effect, which is called the optical spin vortex. We start with the two-component nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-21 Satoshi Tsuchida , Hiroshi Kuratsuji

We study coherent optics in topological insulator surface states with broken time-reversal symmetry and develop a theory for the dynamical Hall effect driven by intense electromagnetic field. The influence of optical Stark effect enters as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-28 Wang-Kong Tse

We investigate the non-resonant all-optical switching of magnetization. We treat the inverse Faraday effect (IFE) theoretically in terms of the spin-selective optical Stark effect for linearly or circularly polarized light. In the dilute…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-20 Alireza Qaiumzadeh , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Arne Brataas

When an electron moves in a smoothly varying non-collinear magnetic structure, its spin-orientation adapts constantly, thereby inducing forces that act on both the magnetic structure and the electron. These forces may be described by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-04 T. Schulz , R. Ritz , A. Bauer , M. Halder , M. Wagner , C. Franz , C. Pfleiderer , K. Everschor , M. Garst , A. Rosch

The linear Faraday effect is used to implement a continuous measurement of the spin of a sample of laser cooled atoms trapped in an optical lattice. One of the optical lattice beams serves also as a probe beam, thereby allowing one to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Greg Smith , Souma Chaudhury , Poul S. Jessen

A magnetic aspect of quark matter is studied by the Fermi liquid theory. The magnetic susceptibility is derived with the one-gluon-exchange interaction, and the critical Fermi momentum for spontaneous spin polarization is found to be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Toshitaka Tatsumi

We demonstrate that the magneto-optic-Kerr effect with normal light incidence can be used to obtain quantitative optical measurements of both components of spin-orbit-induced torque (both the antidamping and effective-field components) in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-31 Xin Fan , Alex R. Mellnik , Wenrui Wang , Neal Reynolds , Tao Wang , Halise Celik , Virginia O. Lorenz , Daniel C. Ralph , John Q. Xiao