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All-optical Hall effect by the dynamic toroidal moment in a cavity-based metamaterial

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2015-06-15 v1 Optics

Abstract

Dynamic dipolar toroidal response is demonstrated by an optical plasmonic metamaterial composed of double disks. This response with a hotspot of localized E-field concentration is a well-behaved toroidal cavity mode that exhibits a large Purcell factor due to its deep-subwavelength mode volume. All-optical Hall effect (photovoltaic) due to this optical toroidal moment is demonstrated numerically, in mimicking the magnetoelectric effect in multiferroic systems. The result shows a promising avenue to explore various optical phenomena associated with this intriguing dynamic toroidal moment.

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@article{arxiv.1303.4577,
  title  = {All-optical Hall effect by the dynamic toroidal moment in a cavity-based metamaterial},
  author = {Zheng-Gao Dong and Jie Zhu and Xiaobo Yin and Jiaqi Li and Changgui Lu and Xiang Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1303.4577},
  year   = {2015}
}

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21 pages, 6 figures