Dispersion of the Verdet constant of water: A band model interpretation

Abstract

A new Faraday rotation glass with a large Verdet constant

The Faraday effect of natural and artificial ferritins

“…Using this setup the Verdet constant dispersion for water was measured in the spectral range from 250 to 680 nm and we obtained excellent agreement with the data of Gravendonk et al [35] for a more or less similar spectral range. Also the Verdet constant for water was taken to have positive sign as per the literature convention [32][33][34][35] and this implies differences in the sign of the VSM and optical hysteresis loops presented in the paper. It may be noticed that the Verdet constant of chloroform measured for several light wavelengths was equal to 648, 568, 323 and 286 ( • /mT) for 400, 430, 546 and 589 nm respectively (the error was lower than 2%).…”

“…Water is often used in the literature as standard for the FE and has been studied by several authors [32][33][34][35]. Using this setup the Verdet constant dispersion for water was measured in the spectral range from 250 to 680 nm and we obtained excellent agreement with the data of Gravendonk et al [35] for a more or less similar spectral range.…”

“…Water is often used in the literature as standard for the FE and has been studied by several authors [32][33][34][35]. Using this setup the Verdet constant dispersion for water was measured in the spectral range from 250 to 680 nm and we obtained excellent agreement with the data of Gravendonk et al [35] for a more or less similar spectral range. Also the Verdet constant for water was taken to have positive sign as per the literature convention [32][33][34][35] and this implies differences in the sign of the VSM and optical hysteresis loops presented in the paper.…”

Excited state properties of liquid water

“…The electronic properties of water, like the density of states and the electronic 'band structure', are extremely interesting and have been the subject of numerous studies. Experimentally, the electronic gap of water has been derived from measurements of the photoionization potential and of the conduction band minimum energy (related to the electron affinity) in photospectroscopy experiments and through the measurements of the magneto-optical interband Faraday rotation [142]. Several theoretical works concerning these properties are also reported in the literature and will be discussed in the following subsection.…”