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The geometric Spin Hall Effect of Light (geometric SHEL) amounts to a polarization-dependent positional shift when a light beam is observed from a reference frame tilted with respect to its direction of propagation. Motivated by this…

We investigate the dynamics of Bloch electrons using a density operator method and connect this approach with previous theories based on wave packets. We study non-interacting systems with negligible disorder and strong spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Dimitrie Culcer , Qian Niu

We study the dependence of the intrinsic spin Hall effect on the crystal symmetry and geometry of experiment. The spin current is obtained and the Hall voltage caused by the polarization of the electron spins is computed. The unique…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-03 E. M. Chudnovsky

The topological properties of a material's electronic structure are encoded in its Berry curvature, a quantity which is intimately related to the transverse electrical conductivity. In transition metal dichalcogenides with broken inversion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-21 Fei Xue , V. P. Amin , P. M. Haney

Photovoltaic Hall effect, i.e., generation of a photocurrent perpendicular to the bias electric field, is an interesting platform of Berry curvature engineering by external fields. Floquet engineering aims at generation of light-induced…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-04 Yuta Murotani , Tomohiro Fujimoto , Ryusuke Matsunaga

The spin orbit interaction (SOI) of light has been in the focus in recent times because of fundamental consequences and potential applications in diverse systems ranging from inhomogeneous anisotropic media to engineered plasmonics and…

Geometric phases in quantum mechanics play an extraordinary role in broadening our understanding of fundamental significance of geometry in nature. One of the best known examples is the Berry phase (M.V. Berry (1984), Proc. Royal. Soc.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-05-11 V. Gritsev , A. Polkovnikov

We launch a first investigation into how a light scalar field coupled both conformally and disformally to matter influences the evolution of spinning point-like bodies. Working directly at the level of the equations of motion, we derive…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-09 Philippe Brax , Anne-Christine Davis , Scott Melville , Leong Khim Wong

The anomalous Hall effect in time-reversal symmetry broken systems is underpinned by the concept of Berry curvature in band theory. However, recent experiments reveal that the nonlinear Hall effect can be observed in non-magnetic systems…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-22 Arka Bandyopadhyay , Nesta Benno Joseph , Awadhesh Narayan

Maxwell's equations, formulated 150 years ago, ultimately describe properties of light, from classical electromagnetism to quantum and relativistic aspects. The latter ones result in remarkable geometric and topological phenomena related to…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-29 Konstantin Y. Bliokh , Daria Smirnova , Franco Nori

The generation and manipulation of carrier spin polarization in semiconductors solely by electric fields has garnered significant attention as both an interesting manifestation of spin-orbit physics as well as a valuable capability for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-06-03 N. P. Stern , D. W. Steuerman , S. Mack , A. C. Gossard , D. D. Awschalom

The phenomenon of mesoscopic Spin-Hall effect reveals in a nonequilibrium spin accumulation (driven by electric current) at the edges of a ballistic conductor or, more generally, in the regions with varying electron density. In this paper…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-24 P. G. Silvestrov , E. G. Mishchenko

We propose a possible mechanism of topological Hall effect in inhomogeneous superconducting states. In our scenario, the Berry phase effect associated with spatially modulated superconducting order parameter gives rise to a fictitious…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-11-21 Satoshi Fujimoto

The Bogoliubov quasiparticles move in a practically uniform magnetic field in the vortex state of high temperature cuprate superconductors. Do the quasiparticles experience a Lorentz force when set in motion by an externally applied heat…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-03-16 Vladimir Cvetkovic , Oskar Vafek

Topological photonics is a rapidly emerging field of research in which geometrical and topological ideas are exploited to design and control the behavior of light. Drawing inspiration from the discovery of the quantum Hall effects and…

There are a variety of nonlinear optical effects including higher harmonic generations, photovoltaic effects, and nonlinear Kerr rotations. They are realized by the strong light irradiation to materials that results in nonlinear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-26 Takahiro Morimoto , Naoto Nagaosa

Spin-orbit interactions (SOI) are a set of sub-wavelength optical phenomenon in which spin and spatial degrees of freedom of light are intrinsically coupled. One of the unique example of SOI, spin-Hall effect of light (SHEL) has been an…

Optics · Physics 2021-02-03 Diptabrata Paul , Deepak K. Sharma , G. V. Pavan Kumar

In this paper, we study topological properties and Hall conductivities in PbC/MnSe heterostructure under the illumination of a circularly polarized light. At high frequency regime, energy gap, Chern numbers, and Hall conductivities are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-05 L. Chen

We provide a unified semiclassical theory for thermoelectric responses of any observable represented by an operator $\hat{\boldsymbol{\theta}}$ that is well-defined in periodic crystals. The Einstein and Mott relations are established…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-14 Liang Dong , Cong Xiao , Bangguo Xiong , Qian Niu

We present a comprehensive review of recent developments in Spin Orbit Interactions (SOIs) of light in photonic materials. In particular, we highlight progress on detection of Spin Hall Effect (SHE) of light in hyperbolic metamaterials and…

Optics · Physics 2024-05-03 Graciana Puentes