Theory of the inverse Faraday effect in dissipative Rashba electron
systems: Floquet engineering perspective
Theory of the inverse Faraday effect in dissipative Rashba electron
systems: Floquet engineering perspective
We theoretically study the inverse Faraday effect (IFE), i.e., photo-induced magnetization, in two-dimensional Rashba spin-orbit coupled electron systems irradiated by a circularly polarized light. The quantum master (Gorini-Kossakowski-Sudarshan-Lindblad) equation enables us to accurately compute the laser driven dynamics, taking inevitable dissipation effects into account. To find the universal features of …