Inverse Faraday Effect in a Plasma
- 9 November 1970
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 25 (19) , 1330-1332
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.25.1330
Abstract
We have shown experimentally that a magnetic field is created by the electrons of a plasma subjected to high-power pulses of circularly polarized microwaves. The experimental results confirm the predictions concerning this phenomenon, known as the inverse Faraday effect.Keywords
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