Pleasure, both Georges Wagniere and Richard Ernst are now retired, but they might help. Wagniere was Dean or Dekan in the University of Zurich and as you know, Ernst won a Nobel Prize in 1991 for optical NMR. Ernst was enthusiastic about RFR and optical NMR when I lectured at ETH in 1991 to the Ernst group. ONMR has been highly developed by now, notably at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington D. C. RFR has been a somewhat perplexing experience for me, but many other good things have happened so I do not wish to pressurize anyone into doing it if they don’t want to. The book by Crowell and myself is in the OO as you know, and it derives RFR from semi classical level to quantum electrodynamics.
In a message dated 30/07/2013 19:35:20 GMT Daylight Time writes:
Thanks for these hints, we will try to contact the Wagniere group in Zurich.
Horst
Am 30.07.2013 19:17, schrieb EMyrone
I suggest that you get in touch with the University of Zurich and ETH to find whether Wagniere and Ernst can be consulted on the inverse Faraday effect and on optical NMR. Wagniere and his group detected an effect called inverse magnetochiral birefringence that is orders of magnitude smaller than the IFE, so there should be no problem these days in detecting IFE. I am rather perplexed at the failure of groups to observe IFE. In the Irchel campus of the University of Zurich there may still be IFE apparatus, and they may invite you to work on it. At ETH there may still be FT NMR spectrometers of Ernst’s group, which he showed me, and they may allow you to use those. Simon Clifford just started to claim that the IFE does not exist. That is a disaster and a rerun of Jelinek and Raja, so I had to stop communicating with him. Imagine if he went to Zurich and told the Wagniere group that the IFE does not exist. I had to cope with this kind of thing in UNCC as you know, and I do not want to have to cope with it all over again. The easiest way to understand B(3) is that it is
B(3) = mu0 M(3)
where M(3) ha sbeen observed many times in the inverse Faraday effect. Simon Clifford also complained bitterly about the chaotic lack of organization by Kerry Pendergast at Aberystwyth. I do not know what Kerry was trying to do, maybe trying to take over AIAS. I had to rescue the conference here. The meetings down here were very successful and cordial except for one sharp, unpleasant argument between Clifford and myself. No scientist is going to tolerate being told that the Faraday effect for example does not exist. Similarly no one is going to tolerate being told that the IFE does not exist. The B(3) is IFE and vice versa. So I just thanked Simon for his views and gave up on him. If I had told my Ph. D. supervisor that the far infra red absorption does not exist I would have been out on my ears and subjected to verbal abuse. I was as polite as possible with Simon. The power house behind AIAS theory is Horst Eckardt, Doug Lindstrom and myself, with key input from Robert Cheshire, Alex Hill, Stephen Crothers and others.