Magneto-Optic Effects

Ebert, H. Magneto-optical effects in transition metal systems. Submitted to Reports and Progress in... 

The inverse Faraday effect depends on the third Stokes parameter empirically in the received view [36], and is the archetypical magneto-optical effect in conventional Maxwell-Heaviside theory. This type of phenomenology directly contradicts U(l) gauge theory in the same way as argued already for the third Stokes parameter. In 0(3) electrodynamics, the paradox is circumvented by using the field equations (31) and (32). A self-consistent description [11-20] of the inverse Faraday effect is achieved by expanding Eq. (32) ... 

Faraday was thus able to enunciate his two laws of electrolysis. His second law implied that both matter and electricity were atomic in nature. Faraday was deeply opposed to atomism, especially the theory proposed by John Dalton, and indeed held a very antimaterialist view. It was clear to Faraday, however, that the law of definite proportions also required some sort of atomic theory. What Faraday proposed in the 1840s was that matter was perceived where fines of force met at a particular point in space. A direct experimental outcome of this radical theory was Faraday s discovery in 1845 of the magneto-optical effect and diamagnetism. The field theory that Faraday developed from this was able to solve a number of problems in physics that were not amenable to conventional approaches. This was one reason why field theory was taken up quite quickly by elite natural philosophers such as William Thomson (later Lord Kelvin) and James Clerk Maxwell. 

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