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Optical impact on the spin system in a magnetically ordered medium provides a unique possibility for local manipulation of magnetization at subpicosecond time scales that is very promising for magnetic data processing and other magnonics…

We establish a theoretical formulation of the orbital magnetic moment in multiorbital tight-binding models, focusing on the role of the electric dipole. We demonstrate that the total magnetic moment can be decomposed into several…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-26 Kosuke Tazuke , Takahiro Morimoto , Sota Kitamura

I formulate a theory of the inverse Faraday effect in impure two-dimensional metallic system with lifted spin degeneracy induced by Rashba spin-orbit coupling. Using the formalism of non-equilibrium quantum field theory, the static…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-28 Maxim Dzero

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 present a microscopic calculation of the inverse Faraday effect in metals. We derive a static local magnetic moment induced on the application of high-frequency light, using the Eilenberger formulation of quasiclassical theory. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-09-13 Priya Sharma , Alexander V. Balatsky

The inverse Faraday effect is a magneto-optical process allowing the magnetization of matter by an optical excitation carrying a non-zero spin or orbital moment of light. This phenomenon was considered until now as symmetric; right or left…

Optics · Physics 2023-01-18 Ye Mou , Xingyu Yang , Bruno Gallas , Mathieu Mivelle

The Faraday effect is a representative magneto-optical phenomenon, resulting from the transfer of angular momentum between interacting light and matter in which time-reversal symmetry has been broken by an externally applied magnetic field.…

Chiral photon interactions with two-dimensional (2D) materials enable unprecedented control of quantum phenomena. In this paper, we report anomalous inverse Faraday effects (IFE) in graphene quantum dots (GQDs) under linearly polarized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-17 Zi-Yang Xu , Wei E. I. Sha , Hang Xie

It is widely known that the magneto-optical Faraday effect is linear in magnetization, and therefore the Faraday angles for the states with opposite magnetizations are of opposite sign but equal in modulus. Here we demonstrate that under…

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

The magnetization in a superconductor induced due to the inverse proximity effect is investigated in hybrid bilayers containing a superconductor and a ferromagnetic insulator or a strongly spin-polarized ferromagnetic metal. The study is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-02-03 Vladimir Yagovtsev , Natalia Pugach , Matthias Eschrig

We report the observation of the Inverse Cotton-Mouton Effect (ICME) i.e. a magnetization induced in a medium by non resonant linearly polarized light propagating in the presence of a transverse magnetic field. We present a detailed study…

In a honeycomb-lattice spin-orbit assisted Mott insulator {\alpha}-RuCl3, an ultrafast magnetization is induced by circularly polarized excitation below the Mott gap. Photo-carriers play an important role, which are generated by turning…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-09-15 T. Amano , Y. Kawakami , H. Itoh , K. Konno , Y. Hasegawa , T. Aoyama , Y. Imai , K. Ohgushi , Y. Takeuchi , Y. Wakabayashi , K. Goto , Y. Nakamura , H. Kishida , K. Yonemitsu , S. Iwai

We report on a new electromagnetic phenomenon that emerges in Mott insulators, i.e., materials that do not conduct electricity because of strong electronic Coulomb repulsion. The phenomenon manifests as antiferromagnetic ordering due to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 K. A. Al-Hassanieh , C. D. Batista , G. Ortiz , L. N. Bulaevskii

Using circularly polarized light is an alternative to electronic ways for spin injection into materials. Spins are injected at a point of the light illumination, and then diffuse and spread radially due to the in-plane gradient of the spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-29 Di Fan , Rei Hobara , Ryota Akiyama , Shuji Hasegawa

We present a new approach to controlling magnetization in gold nanoparticles using the Inverse Faraday Effect combined with Laguerre-Gauss beams carrying orbital angular momentum. By tailoring the tilt of isophase planes, we induce drift…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-02 Xingyu Yang , Chantal Harreau , Mathieu Mivelle

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

We report an intrinsic form of the inverse spin Hall effect (ISHE) in ferromagnetic (FM) metal with Rashba spin orbit coupling (RSOC), which is driven by a normal charge current. Unlike the conventional form, the ISHE can be induced without…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-01 M. -J. Xing , M. B. A. Jalil , Seng Ghee Tan , Y. Jiang

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

We show that the inverse Faraday effect can be used to engineer dipole--exchange spin-wave spectra in ferrimagnetic bismuth iron garnet (BIG) Mie spheres. Internal optical Mie resonances generate spatially structured effective magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Fedor Shuklin , Khristina Albitskaya , Alexander Chernov , Mihail Petrov