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We report the experimental observation of the rotation of the polarization plane of light propagating in a gas of fast-spinning molecules (molecular super-rotors). In the observed effect, related to Fermi's prediction of "polarization drag"…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-08-18 Alexander A. Milner , Uri Steinitz , Ilya Sh. Averbukh , Valery Milner

The ability to control the speed and polarisation of light pulses will allow for faster data flow in optical networks of the future. Optical delay and switching have been achieved using slow-light techniques in various media, including…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-04-08 Paul Siddons , Nia C Bell , Yifei Cai , Charles S Adams , Ifan G Hughes

Faraday rotation is a fundamental magneto-optical phenomenon used in various optical control and magnetic field sensing techniques. Recently, it was shown that a giant Faraday rotation can be achieved in the low-THz regime by a single…

Optics · Physics 2012-12-07 Arya Fallahi , Julien Perruisseau-Carrier

The one-loop polarization function of graphene has been calculated at zero temperature for arbitrary wavevector, frequency, chemical potential (doping), and band gap. The result is expressed in terms of elementary functions and is used to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-12-12 P. K. Pyatkovskiy

It is shown that one can explore the optical conductivity of graphene, together with the ability of controlling its electronic density by an applied gate voltage, in order to achieve resonant coupling between an external electromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Yu. V. Bludov , M. I. Vasilevskiy , N. M. R. Peres

It is generally believed that the magneto-optical Faraday effect appears in the the bulk of a magnetic material and its sign is fully determined by the sign of the non-diagonal permittivity element. Here we reveal an additional contribution…

Theoretical investigation of thermodynamic properties of electrically modulated monolayer graphene in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field B is presented.This work is aimed at determining the modulation induced effects on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-21 R. Nasir , M. A. Khan , M. Tahir , K. Sabeeh

We show that by enclosing graphene in an optical cavity, giant Faraday rotations in the infrared regime are generated and measurable Faraday rotation angles in the visible range become possible. Explicit expressions for the Hall steps of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-09 A. Ferreira , J. Viana-Gomes , Yu. V. Bludov , Vitor M. Pereira , N. M. R. Peres , A. H. Castro Neto

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

We demonstrate optical nonthermal excitation of exchange dominated spin waves of different orders in a magnetophotonic crystal. The magnetophotonic structure consists of a thin magnetic film and a Bragg stack of nonmagnetic layers to…

Bilayer graphene (BLG) possesses a finite bandgap when a potential difference is introduced between the two graphene layers. The potential difference is known to be introduced by surface charge transfer. Thus, it is expected that a finite…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-12-04 Ryo Nouchi

The magneto-optical Faraday effect in the magnetoplasmonic nanostructures with nonuniform, periodically modulated spatial distribution of the magnetization is considered. It is shown that in such nanostructures the Faraday effect can…

Electro-optical modulators, which use an electric voltage (or an electric field) to modulate a beam of light, are essential elements in present-day telecommunication devices. Using a self-consistent tight-binding approach combined with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-24 L. L. Li , B. Partoens , W. Xu , F. M. Peeters

We consider a graphene sheet encapsulated in a two-dimensional metallic grating and a substrate ($\mathrm{Al_{2}O_{3}}$) and subjected to an external magnetic field (in Faraday configuration). The grating consists of a thin perfectly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 Yu. V. Bludov , M. I. Vasilevskiy , N. M. R. Peres

Optical responses of graphene in the presence of intense circularly and linearly polarized terahertz fields are investigated based on the Floquet theory. We examine the energy spectrum and density of states. It is found that gaps open in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-06-29 Y. Zhou , M. W. Wu

The adsorption of fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine diatomic molecules on graphene has been investigated using density functional theory with taking into account nonlocal correlation effects by means of vdW-DF approach. It is shown…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-15 A. N. Rudenko , F. J. Keil , M. I. Katsnelson , A. I. Lichtenstein

The optical Faraday effect describes the rotation of linear polarization upon propagation through a medium in the presence of a longitudinal magnetic field. The effect arises from a different phase delay between the right and left handed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-11-09 Colin Greenshields , Robert L. Stamps , Sonja Franke-Arnold

Phosphorene, a single atomic layer of black phosphorus, has recently emerged as a new twodimensional (2D) material that holds promise for electronic and photonic technology. Here we experimentally demonstrate that the electronic structure…

Bilayer graphene has drawn significant attention due to the opening of a band gap in its low energy electronic spectrum, which offers a promising route to electronic applications. The gap can be either tunable through an external electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Gregory M. Rutter , Suyong Jung , Nikolai N. Klimov , David B. Newell , Nikolai B. Zhitenev , Joseph A. Stroscio

Recently, huge attention has been drawn to improve optical sensing devices based on photonic resonators in the presence of graphene. In this paper, based on the transfer matrix approach and TE polarization for the incident electromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-11 A. Alidoust Ghatar , D. Jahani