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In search of photon’s elementary axial magnetostatic field

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 Experimental investigations of the photon’s B (3)-field (third longitudinal polarization) are reported. The existence of an “axial magnetostatic field of photon” has been predicted in B π or B (3)-theory as the fundamental property of the circularly polarized light, and reported in numerous papers and monographs. High-sensitivity detection has been employed in photomagnetic induction, Faraday, and inverse Faraday effects (IFE) originating from such a field. The results of all three experiments clearly disprove the claims of B π-theory. Putting together these results and theoretical calculations in perspective, it is concluded that such fields are non-existent.

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Received: 25 January 1996 / Revised version: 24 May 1996

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Raja, M., Sisk, W., Yousaf, M. et al. In search of photon’s elementary axial magnetostatic field. Appl Phys B 64, 79–84 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/s003400050148

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