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By studying the rotations of the polarization of light propagating in right and left handed films, with emphasis on the transmission (Faraday effect) and reflec- tions (Kerr effect) of light and through the use of complex values…

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Exact results for the classical and quantum system of two vertically coupled two-dimensional single electron quantum dots are obtained as a function of the interatomic distance (d) and with perpendicular magnetic field. The classical system…

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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

"Photonic crystals" built with time-reversal-symmetry-breaking Faraday-effect media can exhibit "chiral" edge modes that propagate unidirectionally along boundaries across which the Faraday axis reverses. These modes are precise analogs of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-04-26 S. Raghu , F. D. M. Haldane

We propose a numerical technique for modeling the quantum multimode light scattering by a perfectly conducting body. Using the novel quantization technique, we give the quantum adaptation of the characteristic mode approach widely used in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-20 Gregory Ya. Slepyan , Dmitri Mogilevtsev , Ilay Levie , Amir Boag

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

Quantum correlations in four-wave-mixing from ensembles of cold two-level atoms may prevail without filtering over background light with well-known classical interpretations, such as Rayleigh scattering, as recently experimentally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-08 Lucas S. Marinho , Michelle O. Araújo , Daniel Felinto

We developed a new method to calculate two-photon processes in quantum mechanics that replaces the infinite summation over the intermediate states by a perturbation expansion. This latter consists of a series of commutators that involve…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-25 Filippo Fratini , Laleh Safari , Pedro Amaro , José-Paulo Santos

A fractional quantization in a two dimensional space is proposed. The angular momenta of the two dimensional electrons are quantized in fractional numbers by the boundary conditions on a multi-layered Riemann surface. Extended wave…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hyeong Rag Lee

We describe a new viewpoint on canonical quantization of linear fields on a general curved background that encompasses and generalizes the standard treatment of canonical QFT given in textbooks. Our method permits the construction of pure…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-04-28 Ugo Moschella , Richard Schaeffer

Optical activity, like Faraday effect, is a rotation of the plane of polarization of propagating light in a medium and can be attributed to different sources with distinct signatures. In this note we discuss the effect of optical activity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Avijit K. Ganguly , R. Parthasarathy

We use the polarized Fock states to describe the coupled molecule-cavity hybrid system in quantum electrodynamics. The molecular permanent dipoles polarize the photon field by displacing its vector potential, leading to non-orthogonality…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-04 Arkajit Mandal , Sebastian Montillo Vega , Pengfei Huo

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

Non-resonant circularly polarized electromagnetic radiation can exert torques on magnetization by the Inverse Faraday Effect (IFE). Here we discuss the enhancement of IFE by spin-orbit interactions (SOI). We illustrate the principle by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-08 Fateme K. Joibari , Ya. M. Blanter , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

We calculate the resonance fluorescence signal of a two-level system coupled to a quantized phonon mode. By treating the phonons in the independent boson model and not performing any approximations in their description, we also have access…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-22 Thilo Hahn , Daniel Groll , Hubert J. Krenner , Tilmann Kuhn , Paweł Machnikowski , Daniel Wigger

This is a short non-technical introduction to applications of the Quantum Field Theory methods to graphene. We derive the Dirac model from the tight binding model and describe calculations of the polarization operator (conductivity). Later…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-06-18 I. V. Fialkovsky , D. V. Vassilevich

We study theoretically the quantum optical properties of hybrid molecules composed of an individual quantum dot and a metallic nanoparticle. We calculate the resonance fluorescence of this hybrid system. Its incoherent part, the one arising…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-04-12 A. Ridolfo , O. Di Stefano , N. Fina , R. Saija , S. Savasta

Two single-particle sources coupled in series to a chiral electronic waveguide can serve as a probabilistic source of two-particle excitations with tunable properties. The second-order correlation function, characterizing the state of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-07 Michael Moskalets

Path-entangled multi-photon states allow optical phase-sensing beyond the shot-noise limit, provided that an efficient parity measurement can be implemented. Realising this experimentally is technologically demanding, as it requires…

Recent theory of the light-induced medium magnetization (inverse Faraday effect, IFE) performed by a transversely-limited circularly-polarized light beam [Phys. Rev. B 91, 020411 (2015)] predicts the existence of a "demagnetization current"…

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