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The phenomenon of magnetization by circularly polarized light in non-absorbing media was first studied in the classic work of Van der Ziel, et al, 1965. The physical mechanism which gives rise to such magnetization is essentially diffferent from the magnetization produced in media with optical absorption. The latter is produced by polarized electrons in the medium by the transfer of the angular momentum of the electromagnetic radiation to electrons via spin-orbit interaction. In the case of a non-absorbing medium this mechanism is absent. In this paper, we discuss some physical mechanisms which can produce this type of magnetization. One is the production of magnetisation through the nonlinear interaction of the light with the medium. Another possibility is the claim that electromagnetic radiation itself has a longitudinal, constant magnetic field which does the magnetising (Evans M.W., 1994).
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Jeffers, S., Novikov, M., Hathaway, G. (1997). Opto-Magnetic Effects in Nonabsorbing Media: Problems of Measurement and Interpretation. In: Jeffers, S., Roy, S., Vigier, JP., Hunter, G. (eds) The Present Status of the Quantum Theory of Light. Fundamental Theories of Physics, vol 80. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5682-0_13
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