Inverse Faraday effect of weakly relativistic full Poincaré beams in plasma

Liu Wei; Jia Qing; Zheng Jian

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Liu Wei, Jia Qing, Zheng Jian. Inverse Faraday effect of weakly relativistic full Poincaré beams in plasma[J]. Matter and Radiation at Extremes, 2023, 8(1): 014405. doi: 10.1063/5.0120072

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Liu Wei, Jia Qing, Zheng Jian. Inverse Faraday effect of weakly relativistic full Poincaré beams in plasma[J]. Matter and Radiation at Extremes, 2023, 8(1): 014405. doi: 10.1063/5.0120072

Liu Wei, Jia Qing, Zheng Jian. Inverse Faraday effect of weakly relativistic full Poincaré beams in plasma[J]. Matter and Radiation at Extremes, 2023, 8(1): 014405. doi: 10.1063/5.0120072

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Liu Wei, Jia Qing, Zheng Jian. Inverse Faraday effect of weakly relativistic full Poincaré beams in plasma[J]. Matter and Radiation at Extremes, 2023, 8(1): 014405. doi: 10.1063/5.0120072

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Inverse Faraday effect of weakly relativistic full Poincaré beams in plasma

doi: 10.1063/5.0120072

Liu Wei^1
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Jia Qing^{1
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Zheng Jian^{1, 2
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Department of Plasma Physics and Fusion Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, People’s Republic of China
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Collaborative Innovation Center of IFSA, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, People’s Republic of China

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Corresponding author: a)Author to whom correspondence should be addressed: qjia@ustc.edu.cn
Received Date: 2022-08-11
Accepted Date: 2022-12-16

Available Online: 2023-01-01

Publish Date: 2023-01-01

Abstract

Abstract

The inverse Faraday effect (IFE), which usually refers to the phenomenon in which a quasi-static axial magnetic field is self-generated when a circularly polarized beam propagates in a plasma, has rarely been studied for lasers with unconventional polarization states. In this paper, IFE is reconsidered for weakly relativistic full Poincaré beams, which can contain all possible laser polarization states. Starting from cold electron fluid equations and the conservation of generalized vorticity, a self-consistent theoretical model combining the nonlinear azimuthal current and diamagnetic current is presented. The theoretical results show that when such a laser propagates in a plasma, an azimuthally varying quasi-static axial magnetic field can be generated, which is quite different from the circularly polarized case. These results are qualitatively and quantitatively verified by three-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations. Our work extends the theoretical understanding of the IFE and provides a new degree of freedom in the design of magnetized plasma devices.

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