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  1. Apr 2023
    1. with reversed rotation directions of the two principal polarizations, corresponding to complex-conjugate ε tensors for lossless media, are called optical isomers.

      Trying to disentangle this. What do they mean by reversed rotation of the two principal axes?

    2. s well as Lorentz reciprocity, which is a necessary condition to construct devices such as optical isolators (through which light passes in one direction but not the other).

      Not sure how this stacks up against the wave plate argument you have.

    3. quasistatic magnetic field.

      Explicit assumption

    1. y inverting the Laplacian

      Wasn't aware that one could do this.

    2. evaluated at the vector difference x − x′

      not immediately obvious how this vector difference came about.

    3. kk/k2 = ˆkˆk

      This is I assume means that the k on the right is used to dot product whatever it right multiplies with, while the k on the left then gives direction. khat (khat dot ___) where __ is what this operator is acting on

    1. since we areinterested in the optical wavelength region.16

      same assumption the magneto optics book makes, except this time with a citation.

      Does not agree with the wikipedia page

    2. wherethe multiple reflections could be ignored

      Which multiple reflections?

    3. The MOKE,fundamentally related to the spin-polarized electronic bandstructure, is manifested itself by the change of polarizationand/or intensity of incident polarized light when it is re-flected from the surface of a magnetized medium

      Wow. That was explicit

    1. Onsager relations mean that the diagonal components of the dielectric tensorare even function of M, while the nondiagonal ones are odd function of M

      How does that follow?

    2. e(w) can be shown to have the following form [6],

      Hmm. They don't derive it. Lets examine source 6.

    3. crystal has a cubic symmetry, and e(w) = € · 1, where € is the dielectricpermeability of the material and 1 is a unit tensor.

      Why does cubic symmetry imply that the dielectric tensor is a scalar?

    4. where the magnetization is zero

      Presuming 0 field for the paramagnetic state.

    5. magnetic permeability tensorJL(w)onoptical phenomena is small, so we assume thatJL(w)= Jlol

      I remember hearing that elsewhere, but not sure why that would apply to a ferromagnet?

    6. e the magnetic domain structures inferromagnets(4

      Worth checking out this reference

    7. This is known asthenonreciprocal property of lightpropagation in ferromagnets.

      You should also be able to do this with a mirror and a quarter wave plate. the quarter wave plate would slow one axis of linearly polarized light, and again slow the same axis when the light passes back through the wave plate.

      The wave plate is reciprocal. What's special here?

    8. andtherelation between MO effects andthedielectric tensor,

      Great, that would explain the sample matrix in MOKE hopefully.

    9. Kerr rotation (KR) of "' 0.5°

      Can use this number to estimate the skin depth of the light penetrating through the matterial obeying the standard feromagnetic faraday rotation.

      amount of propagation distance 0.5 degrees / (10^{4 to 6} deg/cm) = 0.510^ -{4 to 6} cm = 0.510^ -{6 to 8} m

      depth = propagation distance/2 = 0.25 *10^ -{6 to 8} m = 2.5 to 250 nm

      makes me wonder if parts of the wave is going into the material to different depths, whether parts of the wave would pick up different Kerr rotations.

    10. FR in nonmagnets istoo small to be applied for devices

      Seems similar to how MOKE is more detectable in feromagnetic films, than anti ferromagnets (and paramagnets?)

    11. w = 18300cm-1

      funky units. I'd imagine that's supposed to be measured in time

    12. nonmagnets as well asferromagnets.

      transparent ferromagnets? Is the effect following a different functional form in the two?

    13. of anoma-lously large Faraday rotation due to diamagnetic bismuth ions in ferrimagnetic gar-nets,

      Wonder if this is what is used for commercial Faraday rotators?

    14. "Modern Magneto-Optics and Magneto-Optical Materials" by A.K. Zvezdinand V.A. Kotov

      reminder to check that book out from the library.

    15. 8 discusses "photo-induced magnetism", which is completely differentfrom "photo-thermal magnetism" used in an optical magnetic memory de-vice.

      Should look at that later

    16. In Chap. 5,after introducing a phenomenological theory of the Faraday and Kerr effects,we present a microscopic theory based on the ligand-field theory and discussthe future developments.

      That's exactly what I need.

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    1. d-wave ratherthan conventional s-wave symmetry

      What are these?

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    1. During that time he deployed it in crucial experiments involving polarization, birefringence, and optical rotation,[3][4][5] all of which contributed to the eventual acceptance of his transverse-wave theory of light.

      That's crazy that that's how the transverse theory of light came about.

    1. k-linear

      Which K vector?

    2. Optical injection provides a local dc source ofpolarized electrons

      Why does optical make the electrons polarized and DC?

    1. However, no two-dimensional crystal with intrinsic magnetismhas yet been discovered 10–14

      No intrinsic magnetism!!

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    1. systematic way to distinguish between them in

      Between densities and currents of spin?

    2. are closely related

      tautological, right?

    3. distinctionbetween intrinsic and extrinsic contributions to the spin current is not useful

      spicy

    1. optically created spin polarization.

      Where did the optical part come in?

    2. transform differently

      ? Which transform?

    3. double groups

      What's a double group?

    4. lacks a pedagogical derivation of the mechanisms leading tospin scattering in monolayer

      Seriously? What about in Bulk?

    5. with often contrastingresults

      spicy

    6. heavy tran-sition metal atoms in the lattice

      What's the relationship between heavy metals and strong spin orbit coupling?

    7. valley

      What is valley degree of freedom?

    1. N TOR

      Just a test

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    1. flow in the x-direction of spins polarized along y is transformed to a flow in the y-direction of spins polarized along x.

      Why does this happen?

    1. e magnetization field or M-field can be defined according to the following equation: M = d m d V {\displaystyle \mathbf {M} ={\frac {\mathrm {d} \mathbf {m} }{\mathrm {d} V}}}

      This equation \(\bm{M} = d\bm{m}/dV\) is rather bizarre. How do you take a derivative with respect to a volume?

      This makes sense if you take the definition of m as an indefinite integral, rather than an integral evaluated over all space.

      In that context, m is a function of the volume you have included so far. This makes the derivative make sense, because as you include more volume, the derivative is how much the total magnetization increases by.

    1. t the magnetization tries to reduce the poles as much as possible

      Justification probably being that the like poles repel each other, and like poles attract and annihilate.

  2. Mar 2023
    1. spectral decomposition

      links to eigenvalues, but I wonder if this really should be spectral decomposition as in frequency spectrum.

    1. line through the middle of a stationary process then it should be flat; it may have 'seasonal' cycles, but o

      Doesn't that break the definition? The definition was that the probability distribution did not change with time.

    1. rence is represented as a Gaussian function expressed as[13]

      Not sure where this comes from. Citation does not appear to have this equation

    2. he former being an equivalent to the coherence length of the light source

      Would it be better to just use white light, rather than a SLED then? Or does that cause to thin of a cross section, and too little signal?

    3. ut scattering is too small to be detected. No special preparation of a biological specimen is required, and images can be obtained ‘non-contact’ or through a transparent window or membrane. It is also important to note that the laser output from the instruments used is low – eye-safe near-infrared or visible-light[29]

      Too little light to be detected, yet the light intensity is low. Can you penetrate deeper with just a stronger beam?

    1. capture a broad band of light and focus it into each pinhole significantly increasing the amount of light directed into each pinhole and reducing the amount of light blocked by the spinning-disk.

      How does this not defeat the purpose of the pinhole blocking unwanted light?

  3. Feb 2023
    1. the energies of the bands near the surface are often pinned to the Fermi level, due to the influence of surface states.[

      Not sure why this is the case.

  4. Oct 2022
    1. Ea and Eb each incident at one of the inputs

      Are these polarization states? Or spatial modes on the 2 sides of the splitter?

    1. A classical prediction of the intensities of the output beams for the same beam splitter and identical coherent input

      can we do that experiment then on the macro scale? 2 laser beams converge on a beam splitter, and we get 2 beams out?

    2. This is required by the reversibility (or unitarity of the quantum evolution) of the beam splitter.

      Not obvious to me why this is the case.

  5. Jul 2022
    1. is misleading in that only a tiny fraction of spins ever have transverse phase coherence.

      What about this picture implies that?

    1. gives rise to polarization effects

      Interesting that Raman causes polarization.

    2. n a particle, causing them to move at the same frequency. The particle, therefore, becomes a small radiating dipole whose radiation we see as scattered light. The particles may be individual atoms or molecules; it can occur when light travels through transparent solids and liquids, but is most prominently seen in

      This sounds a bit like the Huygens principle, however, unlike Huygens, it results in scatting of light. What is fundamentally different?

    1. "circular" current through the disc

      how does one measure this?

    1. electric stirring effect

      What is this?

    2. the emitted light

      why would light be emitted?

    3. swapping

      What mean by this? As in one should always produce the other, or that there is a specific circumstance where this is the case.

    4. combined action of the direct and inverse spin Hall effect

      So both would happen at once? Why is that?

    5. coupling parameter ʏ

      how so? shouldn't it be a matrix, not a scalar parameter?

    6. the relative motion between the magnetic moment (associated to the spin) and the electric field creates a coupling that distorts the motion of the electrons.

      does this happen classically? Which direction would a bar magnet get pushed if it moves through a uniform magnetic field?

    7. Two possible mechanisms

      as in we still don't know? or that it is sample dependent?

    8. In 1983 Averkiev and Dyakonov[3] proposed a way to measure the inverse spin Hall effect under optical spin orientation in semiconductors.

      inverse implies that there is a normal direction to the spin hall effect. Is the normal direction the same a s the classical b field direction?

    1. they both lie in the plane "transverse"

      true by def of poynting vector

    2. H is determined from E by 90-degree rotation and a fixed multiplier

      Not true in general. Requires the stated assumptions.