In 1845, Michael Faraday showed that light and magnetism are linked. He passed a beam through glass inside a magnetic field and found that its polarization — the direction its waves wiggle — rotated.

Nearly two centuries after Michael Faraday first showed that magnetism can twist light, physicists have uncovered a hidden magnetic ingredient inside this classic effect. The new work reveals that the ...

As an electromagnetic radiation phenomenon, it’s perhaps not so surprising that light is affected by a magnetic field. This Faraday effect (FE) has been used since its discovery by [Michael Faraday] ...

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Light’s neglected magnetic side is finally being written into the physics of how it twists as it travels through magnetized matter. In an experimental and theoretical study in Scientific Reports, ...

As an electromagnetic radiation phenomenon, it’s perhaps not so surprising that light is affected by a magnetic field. This Faraday effect (FE) has been used since its discovery by [Michael Faraday] ...

Intense laser pulses can be used to manipulate or even switch the magnetization orientation of a material on extremely short time scales. Typically, such effects are thermally induced, as the absorbed ...