World Scientific Series in Contemporary Chemical Physics: Volume 1

The Photon's Magnetic Field

Optical NMR Spectroscopy

https://doi.org/10.1142/1911 | January 1993

Pages: 264

By (author):
Myron W Evans (Univ. North Carolina, Charlotte & Cornell Theory Ctr.)

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This book is a collection of papers on a fundamentally new concept in physics — the photon's magnetic field, B_π. It discusses various applications of B_π to predict the existence of new magneto-optic phenomena and to reinterpret some of the fundamentals of optics in terms of B_π of the photon. One of these new phenomena, optical NMR spectroscopy, has already been verified experimentally, leading to a new analytical technique of widespread potential utility.

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Optical NMR and ESR Spectroscopy — Equivalent Magnetic Flux Density of the Circularly Polarised Laser
The Magnetostatic Flux Density B_II of the Electromagnetic Field: Development and Classical Interpretation
The Elementary Static Magnetic Field of the Photon
On the Experimental Measurement of the Photon's Fundamental Static Magnetic Field Operator, BII: The Optical Zeeman Effect in Atoms
On the Experimental Detection of the Photon's Fundamental Static Magnetic Field Operator: The Anomalous Optical Zeeman and Optical Paschen Back Effects
The Photon's Magnetostatic Flux Quantum: Symmetry and Wave Particle Duality, Fundamental Consequences in Physical Optics
The Photon's Magnetostatic Flux Quantum B_II: On the Absence of Faraday Induction
The Optical Faraday Effect and Optical MCD
The Photon's Magnetostatic Flux Density B_II: The Inverse Faraday Effect Revisited
The Photon's Magnetostatic Flux Quantum: The Optical Cotton Mouton Effect
The Photon's Magnetic Flux Quantum B_II: The Magnetic Nature of Antisymmetric Light Scattering
The Photon's Magnetostatic Flux Quantum: Forward Backward Birefringence Induced by a Laser

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OPTICAL NMR AND ESR SPECTROSCOPY EQUIVALENT MAGNETIC FLUX DENSITY OF THE CIRCULARLY POLARISED LASER

M. W. Evans

Pages:1–36

https://doi.org/10.1142/9789814350990_0001

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THE MAGNETOSTATIC FLUX DENSITY B_Π OF THE ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD: DEVELOPMENT AND CLASSICAL INTERPRETATION

M. W. Evans

Pages:37–56

https://doi.org/10.1142/9789814350990_0002

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The classical electromagnetic field generates a static, uniform, magnetic flux density B_Π the equivalent static magnetic flux density of the laser, and on the basis of these equations,estimates are made of laser induced resonance shifts associated with the various mechanisms of optical NMR and ESR (also known as laser enhanced NMR spectroscopy, or LENS). This approach to LENS and optical ESR shows that a circularly polarised laser can be regarded very simply as a “light magnet” which can be used to generate all the phenomena conventionally observed with the usual laboratory magnet.in its axis (Z) of propagation, proportional to the antisymmetric part of the tensor E_iE_j, (the vector quantity E × E^*) where E is the electric field strength of the plane wave. The properties of B_Π the equivalent static magnetic flux density of the laser, and on the basis of these equations,estimates are made of laser induced resonance shifts associated with the various mechanisms of optical NMR and ESR (also known as laser enhanced NMR spectroscopy, or LENS). This approach to LENS and optical ESR shows that a circularly polarised laser can be regarded very simply as a “light magnet” which can be used to generate all the phenomena conventionally observed with the usual laboratory magnet. are developed and interpreted in classical field theory. It is shown that B_Π the equivalent static magnetic flux density of the laser, and on the basis of these equations,estimates are made of laser induced resonance shifts associated with the various mechanisms of optical NMR and ESR (also known as laser enhanced NMR spectroscopy, or LENS). This approach to LENS and optical ESR shows that a circularly polarised laser can be regarded very simply as a “light magnet” which can be used to generate all the phenomena conventionally observed with the usual laboratory magnet. obeys the novel continuity equation

where U_Π = − B₀/c is a quantity interpreted as a magnetostatic density of the electromagnetic plane wave. Here B₀ is the magnetic flux density amplitude of the wave and c the speed of light. The vector potential, A_Π, of B_Π is defined in terms of E × E^*, which is shown to be proportional to the antisymmetric component of Maxwell's electromagnetic stress tensor.

Finally, the motion of an electron in the field B_Π is shown to be a helix by solving the novel equation of motion p + 2eA_Π = constant, where p is the momentum of the electron and e its charge. This trajectory is shown to be equivalent to the motion of an electron in a circularly polarised plane wave.