The Faraday Effect as a Two-State Quantum Process

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2410.01612v2
• Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2024 08:55:37 GMT
• Title: The Faraday Effect as a Two-State Quantum Process
• Authors: Benjamin W. Butler,
• Abstract summary: 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.
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• Abstract: 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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