The Cooper pairs in superconducting condensates are shown to acquire a temperature-dependent dc magnetic moment under the effect of circularly polarized electromagnetic radiation. mechanisms this inverse Faraday investigated within simplest version phenomenological dynamic theory for superfluids, namely, time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau (GL) model. light-induced is be strongly affected by nondiss...

The inverse Faraday effect (IFE), where a static magnetization is induced by circularly polarized light, offers promising route to ultrafast control of spin states. Here we study the IFE in Mott insulators using Floquet theory. We find two distinct behavior governed inversion symmetry. In with symmetry, that effective magnetic field couples ferromagnetically neighboring spins. While for without...

Measurements of the Faraday rotation of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR) polarization could provide evidence for the existence of primordial magnetic fields. The Faraday rotation could also allow the study of some properties of these fields. In this paper, we calculate the angular dependence of the Faraday rotation correlator for different assumptions about the spectral index an...

Faraday Discussions have a splendid reputation in stimulating scientic debates along the traditions set by Michael Faraday himself. The Faraday Discussion 178 on nanoplasmonics has been particularly appropriate. Nanoplasmonics is the science of harnessing the interaction of light and matter on the nanometer scale. Plasmonics is a highly interdisciplinary eld bridging between physics, chemistr...

We present a theoretical study of the Faraday effect in hybrid magneto-plasmonic crystals that consist of Au-Co-Au perforated membranes with a periodic array of sub-wavelength holes. We show that in these hybrid systems the interplay between the extraordinary optical transmission and the magneto-optical activity leads to a resonant enhancement of the Faraday rotation, as compared to purely ferr...

We present the results of an experimental study of the standing waves produced on the surface of a vertically shaken fluid bath just above the Faraday threshold, when a row of equally spaced pillars protrudes from the surface. When the pillar spacing is twice the Faraday wavelength, the resulting wave field is marked by images of the pillars projected at integer multiples of a fixed distance fr...