Electromagnetically induced magnetochiral anisotropy in a resonant medium. Academic Article

abstract

• Chirality has been extensively studied for well over a century, and its potential applications range from optics to chemistry, medicine, and biology. Ingenious experiments have been designed to measure this naturally small effect. Here we discuss the possibility of producing a medium having a large chiral effect by using the ideas of coherent control. The coherent fields resonant with appropriate transitions in atomic or molecular systems can be used to manipulate the optical properties of a medium. We demonstrate experimentally very large magnetochiral anisotropy by using electromagnetic fields in atomic Rb vapors.

authors

• Agarwal, Girish
• Scully, Marlan

published proceedings

• Phys Rev Lett

author list (cited authors)

• Sautenkov, V. A., Rostovtsev, Y. V., Chen, H., Hsu, P., Agarwal, G. S., & Scully, M. O.

citation count

• 54

complete list of authors

• Sautenkov, VA||Rostovtsev, YV||Chen, H||Hsu, P||Agarwal, Girish S||Scully, MO

publication date

• June 2005

publisher

• American Physical Society (APS)  Publisher

published in

• Physical Review Letters  Journal

keywords

• 0299 Other Physical Sciences

PubMed Central ID

• 16090470

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.233601

start page

• 233601

end page

• 234

volume

• 94

issue

• 23