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In the recent paper [1] it was shown that for paraxial propagation of scalar waves, the transverse linear momentum and orbital angular momentum (OAM) are related to the wave coherence function. Although both of these quantities are…

Optics · Physics 2018-01-10 Mikhail Charnotskii

A linearly polarized Gaussian beam, carrying zero net spin angular momentum, is conventionally not expected to exert optical torque or induce rotational motion in birefringent microparticles. When such a beam is tightly focused, the…

The theory of the orbital Hall effect (OHE), a transverse flow of orbital angular momentum in response to an electric field, has concentrated overwhelmingly on intrinsic mechanisms. Here, using a quantum kinetic formulation, we determine…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-02 Hong Liu , Dimitrie Culcer

We resolve the breakdown of angular momentum conservation on two-dimensional photon tunneling by considering spin Hall effect (SHE) of light. This interesting effect manifests itself as polarization-dependent transverse shifts for a classic…

Optics · Physics 2011-02-28 Hailu Luo , Shuangchun Wen , Weixing Shu , Dianyuan Fan

We use quantum mechanical scattering calculations implemented in a basis of tight-binding muffin-tin orbitals to calculate nonequilibrium spin and orbital currents in transition metals with a view to understanding the length scale on which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Max Rang , Paul J. Kelly

We demonstrate that the optical response of twisted photonic bilayers, photonic counterparts of van der Waals structures, is sensitive to both spin angular momentum (SAM) and orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light. A beam of unpolarized…

Spin Hall effect for excitons in alkali halides and in Cu_2O is investigated theoretically. In both systems, the spin Hall effect results from the Berry curvature in k space, which becomes nonzero due to lifting of degeneracies of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-11-05 Shun-ichi Kuga , Shuichi Murakami , Naoto Nagaosa

We present a spin-induced none-geodesic effect of Dirac wave packets in a static uniform gravitational field. Our approach is based on the Foldy-Wouthuysen transformation of Dirac equation in a curved spacetime, which predicts the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-27 Zhen-Lai Wang

Geometrical optics is extended so as to provide a model for spinning light rays via the coadjoint orbits of the Euclidean group characterized by color and spin. This leads to a theory of ``geometrical spinoptics'' in refractive media.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Christian Duval , Zalan Horvath , Peter Horvathy

Spin orbit interaction of light in a disordered anisotropic medium is known to yield spin split modes in the momentum domain because of the random spatial gradient of the geometric phase of light. Here, we have studied the statistics of…

The spin-Hall conductivity in spatially-homogeneous two-dimensional electron systems described by the spin-orbit Hamiltonian \hbar \Omega_p \sigma is presented as a sum of the universal part Me/8 \pi \hbar determined by the Berry phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 O. E. Raichev

We present a study of orbital angular momentum transfer from pump to down-converted beams in a type-II Optical Parametric Oscillator. Cavity and anisotropy effects are investigated and demostrated to play a central role in the transverse…

Optics · Physics 2011-07-08 M. Martinelli , J. A. O. Huguenin , P. Nussenzveig , A. Z. Khoury

We theoretically discuss a new kind of photonic spin-Hall effect (PSHE) for optical beams propagating inside an inhomogeneously twisted anisotropic material. The rotation angle plays the role of an effective gauge field. When the twisting…

The well-known effects of the spin-orbit interaction of light are manifestations of pair mutual influence of the three types of the angular momentum of light, namely, the spin angular momentum, the extrinsic orbital angular momentum and the…

Optics · Physics 2016-08-24 Sarkew Abdulkareem , Nataliya Kundikova

In this paper we look at the gravitational spin--spin interaction between macroscopic astronomical bodies. In particular, we calculate their post--Newtonian orbital effects of order $\mathcal{O}(c^{-2})$ on the trajectory of a spinning…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Lorenzo Iorio

A moving magnetic skyrmion exhibits transverse deflection. This so-called skyrmion Hall effect has been explained by the Thiele equation. Here, we provide an alternative interpretation of the skyrmion Hall effect based on the dynamics of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-11 Kyoung-Woong Moon , Jungbum Yoon , Changsoo Kim , Jae-Hun Sim , Se Kwon Kim , Soong-Geun Je , Chanyong Hwang

Within monochromatic optical fields, we demonstrate the rotating-wave structured light with wave vortex carrying an intrinsic transverse orbital angular momentum orthogonal to the propagation direction of light. Remarkably, we find that…

Optics · Physics 2024-06-21 Zhen-Lai Wang

Interaction of spin and intrinsic orbital angular momentum of light is observed, as evidenced by length-dependent rotations of both spatial patterns and optical polarization in a cylindrically-symmetric isotropic optical fiber. Such…

The paraxial approximation of a classical spinning photon is shown to yield an "exotic particle" in the plane transverse to the propagation. The previously proposed and observed position shift between media with different refractive indices…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-04 C. Duval , P. A. Horvathy , P. M. Zhang

Spin Hall effect in a nonlocal spin-injection device is theoretically studied. Using a nonlocal spin-injection technique, a pure spin current is created in a nonmagnetic metal (N). The spin current flowing in N is deflected by spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 S. Takahashi , S. Maekawa