Eur. Phys. J. B 72, 97-104 (2009)
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2009-00304-3

The interrelation between the Faraday effect and the inverse Faraday effect in a magnetic medium and the terahertz inverse Faraday effect in single molecule magnets

¹ Institute for Physics of Microstructures, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhny Novgorod 603950, GSP -, 102, Russia
² Department of Physics, Nizhny Novgorod State University, 23 Gagarin Avenue, Nizhny Novgorod, 603950, Russia

Corresponding author: ^a tokman@ipm.sci-nnov.ru

Received: 4 June 2009
Revised: 29 July 2009
Published online: 11 September 2009

Abstract

The interrelation between the Faraday and the inverse Faraday effects when the magneto-dipole interaction of a sample with an electromagnetic wave is essential has been phenomenologically investigated. This investigation was carried out in the spirit of well-known Pitaevsky's approach. The terahertz inverse Faraday effect in single molecule magnets has been theoretically studied, the conditions favorable for observing this effect have been formulated.