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The inverse Faraday effect, fermion spin, and B(3)

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Il Nuovo Cimento B (1971-1996)

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The inverse Faraday effect is demonstrated from the Dirac equation of a fermion in a circularly polarized electromagnetic field, and is shown to be due to the Evans-Vigier field,B (3), whose sourcein vacuo is the beam conjugate product. Fermion spin resonance in a microwave or radiofrequency beam is demonstrated to be highly sensitive to the inverse Faraday effect, (IFE), which is related to photon mass through the de Broglie guidance theorem. Under well-defined experimental conditions, the IFE demonstrates the existence of photon mass, and provides an upper bound which is compatible with cosmological measurements.

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  1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, York University, 4700 Keele Street, M3J IP3, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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  2. Division of Physics and Applied Mathematics, Indian Statistical Institute, 203 Barrackpore Trunk Road, 700035, Calcutta, India

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Evans, M.W., Roy, S. & Jeffers, S. The inverse Faraday effect, fermion spin, and B(3) . Il Nuovo Cimento B 110, 1473–1479 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02849845

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