When a coherent beam of light of arbitrary polarization travels in a medium composed of randomly oriented chiral (parity-broken) particles, it is predicted to induce a constant magnetization parallel or antiparallel to the direction of propagation. Under normal laboratory conditions the induced magnetization should be very weak, yet detectable by modern means of measurement. This nonlinear-optical effect, which we name ``inverse magnetochiral birefringence,'' has the opposite sign for enantiomers. It is a difference-frequency effect related to optical rectification or to the inverse Faraday effect.
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G. Wagnière (1989) studied this question.
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