Fermat Principle for spinning light
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2009-11-11 v6 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Theory
Optics
Abstract
Mimicking the description of spinning particles in General Relativity, the Fermat Principle is extended to spinning photons. Linearization of the resulting Papapetrou-Souriau type equations yields the semiclassical model used recently to derive the ``Optical Hall Effect'' (alias the ``Optical Magnus Effect'') for polarized light.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0509636,
title = {Fermat Principle for spinning light},
author = {C. Duval and Z. Horvathy and P. A. Horvathy},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0509636},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
Final revised version, to appear in Phys. Rev. D (Rapid Communication). 5 pages, no figures