The Faraday Effect as a Two-State Quantum Process
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| author | Butler, Benjamin W. |
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| contents | We show that the Faraday effect can be derived from a simple two-state model. This approach uses a quantized electromagnetic field and does not make reference to differences in refractive indices of left- and right-circularly polarized light. Instead it treats the effect as a forward Rayleigh scattering process between two orthogonal modes of the quantized field, and thus emphasises the quantum-mechanical aspects of the phenomenon. |
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| spellingShingle | The Faraday Effect as a Two-State Quantum Process Butler, Benjamin W. Quantum Physics We show that the Faraday effect can be derived from a simple two-state model. This approach uses a quantized electromagnetic field and does not make reference to differences in refractive indices of left- and right-circularly polarized light. Instead it treats the effect as a forward Rayleigh scattering process between two orthogonal modes of the quantized field, and thus emphasises the quantum-mechanical aspects of the phenomenon. |
| title | The Faraday Effect as a Two-State Quantum Process |
| topic | Quantum Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.01612 |