Magnetochiral scattering of light: optical manifestation of chirality.
We have investigated multiple scattering of light in systems subject to magnetochiral (MC) effects. Our medium consists of magneto-optically active dipoles placed in a chiral geometry under the influence of an external magnetic field. We have calculated the total and the differential scattering MC cross sections of this system, explicitly showing that they are proportional to pseudoscalar quantities. This provides an optical measure for the degree of chirality, a pseudoscalar g, of an arbitrary geometrical configuration of scatterers based on its scattering properties. We have calculated g for some simple chiral systems and we have even used it to probe the degree of optical chirality of random systems. Finally, we have compared g with other recently defined chiral measures in literature.
Pinheiro
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CNRS/Laboratoire de Physique et Modélisation des Milieux Condensés, Université Joseph Fourier, Maison des Magistères, Boîte Postale 166 38042 Grenoble Cedex 9, France. felipe.pinheiro@polycnrs-gre.fr
van Tiggelen
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