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  1. Oct 2023
    1. As the electron passes through the electric field of the nucleus, a magnetic field is produced in the reference frame of the electron.

      I should be able to calculate this effect in any reference frame. How would I explain this without changing to the electron reference frame?

    1. Mott polarimeter

      What's that?

    2. Based on the well-known connectionbetween the direction (cw or ccw) of circularly polarized lightand the spin polarization (up or down) of the excited electrons,

      How was that well known?

    3. ink was finally found in the form of magneto-chiraldichroism, that is, a difference in the magnetic optical activity ofthe two enantiomers of a chiral medium.

      What's different between this and the "magnetically induced optical activity in crystals"?

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    1. c

      Why does this follow a different trend from b?

    2. G

      What's this?

    3. polarization P.

      What polarization?

    4. /H-TaS 2 CMIS (c) and a S-MBA/H-TaS 2 CMIS (d) m

      If you layer these on top of each other, do the curves line up?

    5. c,d

      What breaks the symmetry here

    6. Magnetic-field-dependent

      which direction was the magnetic field pointing in these images?

    7. , Magnetic-field-dependent tunnelling current m

      why does magnetic field cause a switching behavior?

    8. ceeding 60%,

      seems redundant with the factor of three.

    9. a robust tunnellingmagnetoresistance >300%

      do they mean left vs right is a factor of three?

    10. unique vdW gaps,

      spatial gaps or electronic band gaps?

    11. Therecently emerged 2DAC

      How did these emerge?

    12. mCP-AFM

      What's that?

    13. low spin selectivity or limited stability, andhave difficulties in forming robust spintronic devices5–8.

      Why is a single block of chiral material bad? (like a block of sugar?)

    14. d or exchange interaction with magnetic atoms,thus preserving the time-reversal symmetry

      isn't a spin based effect inherently time reversal symmetry breaking?

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    1. relative to the square root of frequency and its value is usually on the order of nV/√Hz

      Why is it relative to square root of frequency?

    2. When working with lock-in amplifiers, the input bandwidth is usually small, so the shot noise does not affect the measurements as much.

      as much as what? I presume they mean the previous section, on thermal noise. However that noise also varies proportional to \( \sqrt{\Delta f} \)

    1. codimension

      What is the difference between dimension and co-dimension?

    2. I is not a regularvalue!

      Why is that?

    3. {β1, β2 , . . . , βn } of V∗ is said to be dual to the basis {b1, b2, . . . , bn } ofV

      I remember there being something about dual spaces not having a unique basis, but the dual of the dual does have a natural basis. Can't remember why though.

    4. φ∗ d  dφ∗

      why isn't it phi'?

    5. J ∑I(ψ−1i ◦ ψj )∗ ( fI det(D(ψ−1i ◦ ψj )I,J )).

      Need to look back at Theorem 3.13 for this determinant equation.

    6. ψ−1i

      Aside, how is the pullback of an inverse related to the forward function?

    7. ψi (Ui )

      A little wierd notation because ψi (Ui ) is partially outside the domain of ψj inverse.

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    1. Superachromatic Wave Plates

      temperature dependence: "expected to be small within room temperature based on the materials but no data on it" - Tech Support.

    2. each consists of three quartz and three magnesium fluoride (MgF2) plates that are optically cemented to maximize transmission and carefully aligned to minimize the wavelength dependence of the retardance.

      Is a combination of wave plates necessarily a wave plate?

    3. We do not recommend disturbing this retaining ring, as it is likely to affect the optical alignment of the fast axis of the wave plate.

      It wouldn't affect the relative alignment of the 6 internal plates would it?

    1. Zero-Order Achromatic Wave Plates

      I thought zero order was in contrast to achromatic

    1. Mounted Achromatic

      Is it bad to un mount them?

    2. LCP zero-order wave plates produce a smaller decrease in retardance at larger AOIs.

      Why is that?

    1. J = L + S is what is conserved, so the spin-orbit coupling should take the form L · S

      Not obvious to me how that follows.

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  2. Sep 2023
    1. c is the specific heat of a quantum oscillator calculated earlier with naturalfrequency vsq,

      presumably part B of problem 1.

    2. vs

      What is vs?

    3. ΘD

      What does D mean? and where died this equation come from?

    4. this can be justified by considering that the lattice has acharacteristic length scale

      Do they really mean that it's remapped to another part to the Brillouin zone?

    5. all three acoustic modes

      Longitudinal and 2 transverse?

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    1. singular value.

      Same as from singular value decomposition?

    2. fibre of φ

      Where does the fibre terminology come from?

    3. does notrefer to local parametrizations.

      Well, in some sense it is a parametrization.

    4. it turns outthat practically all abstract manifolds can be embedded into a vector space

      Why can some not be embedded?

    5. nverse of ψ, which is a map ψ−1 : ψ(U) → U, is continuous

      How can the inverse map not be continuous?

    6. (ii) Dψ(t) is one-to-one for all t ∈ U;

      Is this language actually ambiguous, or is there a way to tell without knowing that they are talking about the matrix being a one to one matrix, rather than the transform from psi to Dpsi being one to one?

    7. Changing the order of integration (see Remark 5.3

      wouldn't this change the k-cube if we weren't using all [0,1] intervals?

    8. α be a k − 1-

      does this apply if k is not a k-1 form?

    9. tj ,

      typo: should be j+1

    10. formal linear combination ∑pq1 aq {xq }, which represents a distribution of pointcharges, and the linear combination of vectors ∑pq1 aq xq,

      This says something about what "formal" is.

    11. guage of linear algebra, the k-chains form a vector space with a basisconsisting of the k-cubes

      Seems to imply that overlaping k-cubes must be allowed.

    12. formal linear combination

      What is formal about it?

    13. f (t1 , t2) dt2 dt1  − f (t1, t2) dt1 dt2. How can this besquared with formula (5.1)?

      switching the order of integration works because differentials anti commute, but also integrals anti commute.

    14. p∗ (h) det(Dp) ds1 ds2 · · · dsk

      Where did this det(Dp) come from? Is this from normal multivariable, or is this from differential forms?

    15. almost completelyunaffected

      What does that mean?

    16. Although the image c(R) may look very different from the blockR,

      Do we always know that u can be smoothly covered by c(R)? It can't if it requires more than one chart in the atlas.

    17. , k-forms can beintegrated over k-dimensional parametrized regions

      What if you integrate over a wrong dimensional surface?

    18. Thenwe know that α is exact.

      Why is that?

    19. orms this means that α  dg,

      Need to go back to look at this.

    20. α  F · dx,

      How does the dx know what the path is, and what a tangent to the path is?

    21. o by the substitution formula, Theorem B.9,we have ∫c◦p α  ± ∫c α, where the + occurs if p′ > 0 and the − if p′ < 0

      I don't quite follow.

    22. g

      This should be h?

    23. Differentiationand integration are related

      What's the comparative relation to interior vs exterior derivative? because " Integration is not the inverse function to

    24. lmost completely

      What do you mean by almost?

    25. formula is seldom used to calculate pullbacks in practice

      Isn't it used in all the integrations?

    26. dφi1

      typo

    27. curl(F) · dx  ∗dα.

      Taking the hodge dual of both sides seems to imply that curl(F) dArea = d alpha.

      Is that correct?

    28. div(F)  ∗d∗α.

      intuition?

    29. ector-valued 1-form

      What does this really count as? Forms take in vectors and spit out numbers right?

    30. exterior differentiation

      What is exterior about it?

    31. By convention, forms of negative degree are0

      Hmmm. What could you do by making them not of negative degree?

    32. exterior differential calculus

      Is there an interior differential calculus? What is exterior about this?

    33. c′(0)  0,which does not span a line.

      I presume they don't mean that?

    34. parametrizations to give a formal definition of the notion of amanifold in Chapter 6.

      I wonder if that's how it's defined in a more abstract sense.

    35. closed square is not a manifold, because the corners are not smooth.1

      This is rather odd. Why is an open square a manifold then?

    36. affine subspaces

      why not linear subspace? This seems to imply some constant offset is allowed.

    37. Pulling back forms is nicely compatible with theother operations that we learned about (except the Hodge star).

      Why is that?

    38. (α, β)  (∗α, ∗β)

      Is this an inner product notation?

    39. d(αβ)  (dα)β + (−1)k α dβ for all k-forms α and l-forms β

      Is there a version of this that has no (-1)?

    40. for any increasing multi-index I, Ic denotes the complementary increasingmulti-index, which consists of all numbers between 1 and n that do not occur in I

      Is there an operator c that acts on a larger domain, i.e. all multi-indicies are acceptable inputs, rather than just increasing ones?

    41. dα ∑Id fI dxI .

      Is there a coordinate free way to express this definition?

    42. d( f g)  f dg + g d f

      Why is it in this order?

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    1. s a graded algebra.

      Does the word graded here have anything to do with the "graded commutativity"/"alternating property" of differential forms?

    1. representative linear interferometric techniques

      What's linear about them?

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    1. markedly increasing the writing speed of SOT magneticrandom-access memory devices.

      Without having to use an ultrafast laser?

    2. coherentmagnetization switching

      What is coherent about it? (heat seems by definition not coherent.)

    3. ultrafast heating model a

      Can we just use heat to switch?

    4. ncubation delay

      What is incubation delay?

    5. ~9-picosecond electrical pulse

      Why so long? Also, how do they measure that?

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    1. the worse the reversing of a filter will be; hence, inverting a filter is not always a good solution as the error amplifies. Deconvolution offers a solution to this problem.

      Isn't that what deconvolution is? A way to invert a filter?

  3. Aug 2023
    1. ∂ fi∂x j ∂ fj∂xi

      reminiscent of the complex analysis condition for being differentiable / analytic

    2. (−1)k

      Why isn't this (-1)^(k l ) ?

    3. ( fI dgJ + gJ d fI )

      Why is it g_j * df_I, rather than df_I* g_i?

    4. Thereforeαn+1  0for any form α on Rn of positive degree.

      not valid if it's not embedded in R^n

    5. the increasing multi-indices of degree k

      What is an increasing multi index?

    6. To avoid such ambiguities it is good practice tostate explicitly the domain of definition when writing a differential form

      What's wrong with this ambiguity?

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    1. Single prism

      What is a single prism beam expander?

    2. The use of transfer matrices in this manner parallels the 2×2 matrices describing electronic two-port networks, particularly various so-called ABCD matrices

      Is there a relationship between them?

    3. ray transfer matrix (RTM) M,

      seems to only apply in 2D, or to rotationally symmetric optical elements. Otherwise, you'd need to include the y coordinate.

    4. n sin θ,

      does this avoid the necessity of the par-axial approximation?

    5. s beam can be propagated through an optical system with a given ray transfer matrix by using the equation

      Why can you propagate a beam parameter?

    6. using transfer matrices of higher dimensionality, that is 3×3, 4×4, and 6×6, are also used in optical analysis.

      What do the extra dimensions represent?

  4. May 2023
    1. Writing the wave equations in the light-cone coordinates returns this equation without utilizing any approximation.[18]

      How can you get a paraxial equation without making a paraxial approximation?

    1. e ν(x, y)e i(βν z−iωt)

      propagator would be in a different direction, if we allow non wave guides.

      Something seems wierd about this, beacuse a waveguide, even an infineitely wide onw can still be decomposed into z traveling modes. But somehow, in the limit, you cannot have waves traveling off axis.

    2. And in a lossless waveguide, power conservationrequires

      Seems to be true in general ... not just in a waveguide.

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    1. Special numerical methods which exploit the structure of the oscillation are required, an example of which is Ooura's method for Fourier integrals[6] This method attempts to evaluate the integrand at locations which asymptotically approach the zeros of the oscillation (either the sine or cosine), quickly reducing the magnitude of positive and negative terms which are summed.

      Interesting. Maybe need to use this in your simulations.

    1. 2

      Assumes positive when x less than x1

    2. By this mode of argument itbecomes transparently clear how the a that enters into the prefactor comes toacquire its (otherwise perplexing) absolute value braces

      Still not obvious to me. It looks like it was added in by hand in the last line of eq. 11

    3. 2x

      This term is either a or minus a. When you move it to the other side, it becomes one or the other. Seems non rigorous, if you did that operation first, you would have a different result.

    1. of two Lorentz oscillators, 𝑈(𝑄,! , 𝑄! )

      Interesting we don't do this for the electron polarizability.

      Probably an implicit assumption that we are far away from electron resonance.

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    1. The dot product of a scalar with anything is zero.

      I don't remember this piecewise style definition.

    2. wedge product is p∧q = ½[(pq)−(pq)*]. This is pure imaginary, and constitutes the high-grade piece of the ordinary product. This has norm |p||q|sin(θ) where θ is the angle between the two vectors, which agrees with the ideas in reference 5.

      this seems to be mixing notation. Is the star complex conjugation? How does that mix in with the wedge product?

    1. The second term in on the RHS of equation 61 is the wedge product V∧W. The Trace of the first term is the dot product.

      Not obvious to me

    2. A×B·C = A∧B∧C

      This is not obvious to me.

    3. grade-flipping does not change the cardinality of the basis.

      what does that mean? doesn't change the number of basis vectors?

    4. That is to say, it will have the largest possible grade, namely grade=d.

      this implies that if k> d/2, then there will be terms of the product AB >d. Then the grade of A^B would be greater than d. So, how do these definitions account for that?

      I presume that maybe A^B := <AB>(2k) isn't right, and maybe it should be A^B := <AB>(d) or maybe the result is just 0?

    5. A ⌞ B:=⟨A B⟩r−s    (right contraction)     (51a)         (forward contraction) A ⌟ B:=⟨A B⟩s−r

      What happens if r-s or s-r is negative?

    6. A •H B:=⟨A B⟩|s−r|    provided r>0 and s>0     (51e)         (Hestenes inner product)

      How is this any different from the dot product?: A • B := ⟨A B⟩|s−r|

    7. 1s 1v         D=1     1s 2v 1b        D=2    1s 3v 3b 1t       D=3   1s 4v 6b 4t 1q      D=4

      This implies that grade <= dimension of the space.

    8. e earlier definition of dot product (equation 7) and the definition of components (equation 45).

      And I presume equations for the comutators of the gammas? equation 40 to 42? Not obvious to me how to derive this from the given equations.

    9. There is no advantage in imagining some super-vector that has the γi vectors as its components.

      I remember wanting to do that, when I learned about this style of vector component notation originally. I didn't find any advantage of thinking about it that way, but also, it's not obvious to me that there isn't one that I just haven't found.

    10. γi γj = − γj γi      for all i ≠ j

      proof of this is not obvious to me.

    11. In Minkowski spacetime, any such basis will have the following properties:

      Interesting that any basis will have one timelike vector of -1 magnitude. Naively, I'd expect there to be a orthonormal basis where one of the vectors isn't perfectly timelike, but I suppose that gets fixed with normalization.

    12. := γ1γ2             B := γ2γ3            then    AB := γ1γ3

      Why is this not AB = γ1γ2γ2γ3

    13. sC = s·C                 = s∧C

      This cannot be true, because s^C = (sC -Cs)/2 by definition 6. = (sC-sC)/2 = 0 because scalars commute with anything,

      I'm guessing definnition 6 doesn't actually apply to scalars?

    14. It is easy to calculate the geometric product: AB = 1 + γ1γ4 + γ2γ3 +  γ1 γ2 γ3 γ4

      That's not what I get. I expanded B and A out in terms of the definition 6, and then took the product. There's no obvious way to get the constant term.

    15. We make a point of keeping things non-chiral, to the extent possible, because it tells us something about the symmetry of the fundamental laws of physics, as discussed in reference 3.

      Note, this section about front or back of the bivector indicating chirality seems to contradict this statement from the reference:

      "If you have an area that is marked on one side but not circulating, it is not chiral. And if you have an area with circulation, but neither side is marked, it is not chiral. " -Reference 3

    16. The paintbrush picture is a little dodgy in the case where C is a scalar

      What about where C is a trivector, while we are in 3 dimensions?

      or is the grade restricted to the number of dimensions?

    17. Suppose P, Q, and R are grade=1 vectors. Then P ∧ (Q·R) is simple. It’s just a vector parallel to P, magnified by the scalar quantity (Q · R).

      No, then Q dot R would be a scalar. And a vector wedge scalar is 0.

    18. |p−q| to p+q inclusive (counting by twos)

      Why counting by twos? And why these bounds? as in, why the bound |p-q|? The upper bound just comes from the product of two things has the grade of the sum of grades.

    19. 2.15  More About the Geometric Product

      Go back to 2.10 once you get here, so that 2.10 makes sense

    20. w define the wedge product between any blade and any blade.

      Doesn't work if R is a scalar, because then P^Q^R isn't given by equation 15.

      This is ok, because we can compute Q^R = 0 first.

    21. P∧Q∧R := 1  6 (PQR + QRP + RPQ − RQP − QPR − PRQ)

      Note, this is not equivalent to P^(Q^R) which is 1/4 (PQR + RQP - PRQ - QRP)

      This is because P^(Q^R) is not yet defined, because Q^R would be a bivector if Q and R are vectors.

      If either Q or R were a scalar, then Q^R = 0, so this would be defined, and the answer would be 0.

    22. P∧(Q∧R) := P∧Q∧R

      Note that P^(Q^R) wasn't defined before, because Q^R is a bivector, if Q and R are vectors.

    23. blade is defined to be any scalar, any vector, or the wedge product of any number of vectors.

      What's the motivation for this definition? Also, that could be a clif of arbitrarily large grade, given the definition for the wedge product of r vectors (equation 15).

      Why is it about the wedge product of some number of vectors? Why not make just make it the about the product?

    24. vector,   bivector,   trivector, ⋯,  multivector

      The point being that a clif (or bad terminology "multivector") includes more than just vectors, bivectors, trivectors, and other blades.

    25. vector,   bivector,   trivector, ⋯,  blade

      The statement here being that vectors, bivectors etc are all types of blades.

    26. quantity γ0 γ1 + γ2 γ3

      where the gammas are vectors.

    27. It is necessarily either a blade or the sum of blades, all of the same grade.

      Not obvious why this is the case? that means that it would be homogenous if I add a scalar to a vector, because both are blades.

      The first example given contradicts this. My error is that scalars and vectors are not of the same grade.

    28. PQ = −QP = P∧Q     iff P ⊥ Q

      This derivation goes as PQ = 0+P^Q = -P^Q = -QP

    29. grade≤1

      typo? I presume that grade >=1.

    30. A bivector can be visualized as a patch of flat surface, which has area and orientation

      Does this mean one side of the surface is marked? or that a circulation is marked?

    31. We add bivectors edge-to-edge,

      Does this mean you can rescale the shape of the bivectors, keeping the area constant?

    1. The eigenvalues of Z are x ± iy an

      I agree, but this seems unrelated to the previous sentence.

    2. we are motivatedtherefore to introduce the operation

      How does this follow?

    1. the fol-lowing symmetries:

      What is Lambda here?

    2. The statevariables are divided into two groups.

      This demarkation seems random. How is one to know which group the variable belongs in? With quadratic MOKE, certain elements of the permitivity tensor are assumed to be even and odd in magnetization, citing the onsager relations.

    3. and it would haveled to ~xxfs ¼ 0

      Why would Lorentz reciprocity lead to this?

    4. free energy being a perfect differential, and be-cause the constitutive relations (47) do not involveconvolution integrals

      Why is the free energy a perfect differential? And how does this transpose equation follow?

    5. prospects of obser-ving a magnetic monopole are rather remote [38, 39],for now it is appropriate to regard the Tellegen med-ium as chimerical

      What does monopole have to do with a tellegen medium?

    6. Hence, non-zero va-lues of BðwÞ of actual materials are not know

      Really?! It's on wikipedia?

    7. h magnetoelectric tensors arecommonplace. Typically, such properties are exhibitedat low frequencies and low temperatures.

      So, not the magneto optics in SAGNAC

    8. The constitutive functions must be characterized aspiecewise uniform

      Why uniform? Why can't it be smoothly varying?

    9. Physically, this constraint arises from the follow-ing two considerations:

      How did these considerations come into the previous derivation of the post constraint?

    10. generalized duality transformation

      ??

    11. reciprocity constraint. But it is not, because itdoes not impose any transpose-symmetry requirementson ~ee, ~aa, ~bb and ~nn

      Ah, this is what a reciprocity is.

    12. D x; tð Þ ¼ e0 ~EE x; tð Þ þ ~PP x; tð Þ ; ð15Þ~HH x; tð Þ ¼ m10 ~BB x; tð Þ  ~MM x; tð Þ

      I remember Jackson had an infinite series of terms here. Are both rigorous options?

      It feels like P and M should cover everything?

    13. Both ~PP x; tð Þ and ~MM x; tð Þ are nonunique to the extentthat they can be replaced by ~PP x; tð Þ  r  ~AA x; tð Þ and~MM x; tð Þ þ ð@=@tÞ ~AA x; tð Þ, respectively, in (12) and (13)without affecting the left sides of either equation.

      This is what the issue is with what is a magnet.

    14. r  ~MM x; tð Þ

      Where does current = Curl of M come from?

    15. Actually, only spatialaveraging is necessary [6], because it implies temporalaveraging due to the finite magnitude of the universalmaximum speed e0m0ð Þ

      How does that follow?

    16. he constitutive parameters satisfy the On-sager relations

      Don't see how this follows.

    17. deviation S of theentropy from its equilibrium value as the quadratic expres-sion [7]

      Also not obvious to me. May need to look at reference 7

    18. ndicates averaging over time t

      This relationship should hold true for any particular time right? not just when you average over time?

    19. variables are supposed to be odd with respect to are-versal of velocities of the microscopic particles constitutingthe linear medium; in other words

      Not obvious to me how the statement of averaging relates to the oddness of the reversal of velocities.

    1. . In crystals and molecular systems,magnetoelectricity – a phenomenon with local coexistence of electric and magnetic moments – takesplace when space inversion is locally broken [8].

      What!? Why is this?

    2. The cross-polarization matrices in constitutive relations of bianisotropic media are, in fact,pseudotensors

      Presuming these are the matricies relating H to P for example? Why are they pseudo tensors?

    3. e cross-polarization coupling vanishes in the long-wavelength limit

      Why is that? And what is cross polarization coupling? is that Ex couples to Ey? or Ex couples to Hy?

  5. Apr 2023
    1. the trailing-shield head invented by Michael Mallary. This head offered higher field gradients

      How does it work? It seems like the trailing sheild would cause the magnetic field lines to be less perpendicular, and hence less effective. Maybe it's because the increase in field strength outweighs the decrease in perpendicular projection.

    2. control the level of exchange-coupling between grains

      I assume they mean to reduce the exchange coupling.

    3. oxide-segregant exchange-break between grains

      What's that?

    4. uniaxial anisotropy constant Ku, which in turn is higher for a material with a higher magnetic coercivity

      What is the exact relationship between the two?

    5. Perpendicular recording uses higher coercivity materials because the head's write field penetrates the medium more efficiently in the perpendicular geometry.

      If the reason for PMA being better is simply that the write head is better, then there would be no advantage for out of plane spin torques.

    6. superparamagnetic limit

      In what way is this a limit?

    7. Hard disk technology with longitudinal recording has an estimated limit of 100 to 200 gigabit per square inch (16 to 31 Gb/cm2) due to the superparamagnetic effect, though this estimate is constantly changing.

      How does this follow from the superparamagnetic effect?

    1. 19

      reference 19 seems to have nothing about the sample matrix.

    2. We measure thesaturation magnetization of our Py layers using vibrating sample magnetometry

      How does that tell you the saturation?

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    1. Surface magneto-optic Kerr effect

      There appears to be one other paper with the same name.

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    1. Comparison of themeasured out-of-plane Oersted field with a finite-elementcalculation of th

      How did they use this comparison?

    2. As expected, we find that theout-of-plane Oersted field is antisymmetric about the centerof the wire, and the equivalent spin-orbit field is approxi-mately constant across the wire width

      What do they mean by find that? Isn't it according to there definaition oersted = antisymetficf part? Like how do they find that that's true?

    3. expected change in the Kerr rotation signal isDwðmÞ ¼ aPolarDhM þ bQuadratic cos 2/polD/M: (5)A derivation of this result using a Jones-matrix calculation isgiven in the supplementary material

      Check that out.

    4. quarter wave plate (labeled QWP-1) to compensate a slightbirefringence of the beam splitter

      Need to think about how they calibrate that.

    5. mode-locked Ti:Sapphire laser working at 780 nm centerwavelength.

      Why bother with ultrafast?

    6. (4)

      Go through this derivation

    7. Ms is much larger than any of the other field terms

      Assuming Ms is the saturation magnetization. Not sure what they mean by comparison to the "other field terms" ?

    8. Permalloy, the in-plane anisotropy is negligible

      Answers your previous question.

    9. This is replaced by a quarterwave plate QWP-2 for detecting the current-induced in-plane magnetizationrotation.

      I thought it would be both a half wave plate and a quarter wave plate, based on our apparatus.

      The output of our sagnac is linear, with some osculations, so that means we could just put a HWP after our QWP, and then we'd be able to sweep the rotation angle.

    10. esulting from two orthogonal effec-tive-magnetic-field components h y0 and hz

      This is assuming field like torques?

    11. We initially align themagnetization along the x0 direction using an external field

      Does that imply that the permaloy is easy axis in plane isotropic?

    12. in-plane AC current, Iac cos xt, at 1013 Hz with Iac ¼ 10 mA

      Seems very low frequency. Do we use frequencies this low?

      Also the current is high.

    13. MOKE is analogous to the anomalous Hall effect (/ m z),while the quadratic MOKE is the analog of the planar Halleffect (/ m x m y).

      Wow, thats cool.

    14. intimate connection between the permittivity tensor andthe conductivity tensor in electromagnetism.

      What's the relationship?

    15. quadratic MOKE changes the polarization fromcircular to slightly elliptical (see supplementary material).

      not obvious to me. Will need to look at citation.

    16. rotation of the polarization angle due to the mag-netization can be written as 26wðmÞ ¼ aPolarmz þ bQuadraticmxmy þ    ;

      need to dive into this source to see where this equation came from.

      Also, I thought that quadratic moke would result in an elipticity of the light, not rotation.

    17. We verify the accu-racy of this method for measuring spin-orbit-induced torquesby studying a series of Pt/Permalloy (Ni81Fe19 ¼ Py) bilayers

      I presume they mean by comparison to STFMR.

    18. sensitiv-ity comparable to the techniques based on magnetotranspor

      I thought that optical methods were more sensitive. Is this paper about moke or sagnac moke?

    19. Recently, Montazeri et al. demonstrated the existenceof a quadratic MOKE response in the setup with normal lightincidence.

      This reference could be useful.

    20. nance (ST-FMR)6 can be used for metallic magnets with eitherperpendicular or in-plane anisotrop

      Oh... I thought all methods besides second harmonic hall were only for in plane.

    21. econd-harmonic Halleffect measurements work well for measuring torques actingon a metallic magnetic layer with perpendicular magneticanisotropy, but for magnets with in-plane anisotropy, the needto separate out thermally induced signals makes this techniquemore difficult to apply.

      Second harmonic hall for out of plane. It can do in-plane, but not well.

    22. nvolve current-induced torques arising from spin-orbitinteractions, either in heavy-metal (HM)/ferromagnet (FM)bilayers5,6,11,12 or topological insulator (TI)/FM bilayers

      Seems to imply that topological insulators can produce good spin orbit torques.

    23. inding values in excellent agreement with spin-torque ferromagnetic resonance measurements

      I thought there was a whole controversy about this?

    Annotators

    1. voids interference when sub-sequently overlapping forward- and backward-generatedpair contributions.

      Only for one of the photons in the pair that actually gets rotated.