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We report a systematic study of coherent spin precession and spin dephasing in electron-doped monolayer MoS$_2$. Using time-resolved Kerr rotation spectroscopy and applied in-plane magnetic fields, a nanosecond-timescale Larmor spin…

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The origin of magnetic fields in the Universe is an open problem in astrophysics and fundamental physics. Polarization observations with the forthcoming large radio telescopes will open a new era in the observation of magnetic fields and…

Using a microfabricated, p-type GaAs Hall bar, is it shown that the combined application of co-planar electric and magnetic fields enables the observation at 50 K of spatial oscillations of the photoluminescence circular polarization due to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-26 V. Notot , D. Paget , A. C. H. Rowe , L. Martinelli , F. Cadiz , S. Arscott

We investigate the coupling of the spin angular momentum of light beams with elliptical polarization to the spin degree of freedom of free electrons. It is shown that this coupling, which is of similar origin as the well-known spin-orbit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-04 Heiko Bauke , Sven Ahrens , Rainer Grobe

A precise, accurate, and relatively straightforward in-situ method to measure and control the ellipticity of light resonantly interacting with an atomic vapor is described. The technique can be used to minimize vector light shifts. The…

Optics · Physics 2017-09-14 Derek F. Jackson Kimball , Jordan Dudley , Yan Li , Dilan Patel

External driving of spinor degrees of freedom by magnetic or optical fields in quantum systems underpin many applications ranging from nuclear magnetic resonance to coherent state control in quantum computing. Although spinor polariton…

We present a comprehensive investigation of the radio polarization properties within the theory of natural electromagnetic wave modes in pulsar magnetospheres. Taking into account the curvature of the field lines, aberration effects and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexis von Hoensbroech , Harald Lesch , Thomas Kunzl

Supplementing our STM and electron emission studies investigations, concluding in electron pairing in strong laser fields [1], further time-of-flight electron emission studies were carried out, changing the angle of polarization of the…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-02 N. Kroó , P. Rácz , S. Varró

Detailed knowledge of the mesopheric sodium layer characteristics is crucial to estimate and optimize the performance of Laser Guide Star (LGS) assisted Adaptive Optics (AO) systems. In this paper, we present an analysis of two sets of data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-17 Benoit Neichel , Celine D'Orgeville , Joseph Callingham , Francois Rigaut , Claudia Winge , Gelys Trancho

The exosphere, the tenuous collisionless cloud of gas surrounding Mercury is still a poorly known object because it is the result of many various interactions between the surface, the interplanetary medium (Solar wind, photons and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-24 V. Mangano , S. Massetti , A. Milillo , A. Mura , S. Orsini , F. Leblanc

We present a novel method that combines spin resonance spectroscopy with transmission electron microscopy (TEM), enabling localized in-situ detection of microwave (MW)-driven spin excitations. Our approach utilizes continuous wave MW…

Self-oscillating atomic magnetometers, in which the precession of atomic spins in a magnetic field is driven by resonant modulation, offer high sensitivity and dynamic range. Phase-coherent feedback from the detected signal to the applied…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-07-25 Stuart Ingleby , Paul Griffin , Terry Dyer , Marcin Mrozowski , Erling Riis

We report on the concept of an innovative source to produce polarized proton/deuteron beams of a kinetic energy up to several GeV from a laser-driven plasma accelerator. Spin effects have been implemented into the PIC simulation code VLPL…

Recent high-resolution observations of sunspot oscillations using simultaneously operated ground- and space-based telescopes reveal the intrinsic connection between different layers of the solar atmosphere. However, it is not clear whether…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-13 S. Krishna Prasad , D. B. Jess , Elena Khomenko

We demonstrated a scalar atomic magnetometer using a micro-fabricated Cs vapor cell. The atomic spin precession is driven by an amplitude-modulated circularly-polarized pump laser resonant on D1 transition of Cs atoms and detected by an…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-10-07 Rui Zhang , Terry Dyer , Nathan Brockie , Roozbeh Parsa , Rahul Mhaskar

We present a combined theoretical and experimental study of magnetic resonance transitions induced by polarization-modulated light in cesium vapor exposed to a transverse magnetic field. Signals are obtained by phase-sensitive analysis of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-12-06 E. Breschi , Z. D. Gruijc , P. Knowles , A. Weis

In recent years diode laser sources have become widespread and reliable tools in magneto-optical spectroscopy. In particular, laser-driven atomic magnetometers have found a wide range of practical applications. More recently, so-called…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Z. D. Grujić , A. Weis

In recent years, new high spatial resolution observations of the Sun's atmosphere have revealed the presence of a plethora of small-scale magnetic elements down to the resolution limit of current cohort of solar telescopes ($\sim 100-120$…

The efficient release of magnetic energy in astrophysical plasmas, such as during solar flares, can in principle be achieved through magnetic diffusion, at a rate determined by the associated electric field. However, attempts at measuring…

We first predict the splitting of a spin degenerate impurity level when this impurity is irradiated by a circularly polarized laser beam tuned in the transparency region of a semiconductor. This splitting, which comes from different…

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