Feed: Dr. Myron Evans
Posted on: Thursday, May 12, 2011 12:27 AM
Author: metric345
Subject: Literature Search on Photodissociation
| There has been a lot of work on polarized atoms and molecules in photodissociation. For example:
www.ccp6.ac.uk/booklets/CCP6-2005_vector_correlations.pdf On page 9 for example it is described how circularly polarized light pumps the m = – 1/2 ground state of rubidium into the m = 1/2 state. This is a transfer of angular momentum. In the standard model there are only two states of angular momentum, right and left, because of zero photon mass, but in the ECE theory the angular momentum also has a longitudinal component. Polarized atoms can be prepared by pulsed laser preparation. Google literature searching is now as good as any big library, so using this method I found that the inverse Faraday effect and the B(3) field have been observed on the sub femtosecond level in a magnetic liquid and reported by a group from China. So it is quite easy to see how B(3) and angular momentum is at work in photodissociation processes, but it is much more difficult to achieve what Kurata has demonstrated experimentally and industrially. The inverse Faraday effect is routine by now.
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