Light scattering in the medium with fluctuating gyrotropy: application to spin noise spectroscopy

Abstract

The spin noise signal in the Faraday-rotation-based detection technique can be considered equally correctly either as a manifestation of the spin-flip Raman effect or as a result of light scattering in the medium with fluctuating gyrotropy. In this paper, we present rigorous description of the signal formation process upon heterodyning of the field scattered due to fluctuating gyrotropy. Along with conventional single-beam experimental arrangement, we consider here a more complicated, but more informative, two-beam configuration that implies the use of an auxiliary light beam passing through the same scattering volume and delivering additional scattered field to the detector. We show that the signal in the spin noise spectroscopy arising due to heterodyning of the scattered field is formed only by the scattered field components whose wave vectors coincide with those of the probe beam. Therefore, in principle, the detected signal in spin noise spectroscopy can be increased by increasing overlap of the two fields in the momentum space. We also show that, in the two-beam geometry, contribution of the auxiliary (tilted) beam to the detected signal is represented by Fourier transform of the gyrotropy relief at the difference of two wave vectors. This effect can be used to study spin correlations by means of noise spectroscopy.

arXiv commentThis paper supercedes arXiv:1611.02080

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