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The geometric spin Hall effect of light (GSHEL), which is associated with nonzero transverse angular momentum, has been demonstrated to occur without the need for light-matter interaction and is characterized by a transverse shift.…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-19 Chaokai Yang , Weifeng Ding , Zhaoying Wang

In the photonic spin Hall effect (SHE), also known as the transverse shift, incident light photons with opposite spins are spatially separated in the transverse direction due to the spin-orbit interaction of light. Here, we propose a…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2025-06-04 Muhammad Waseem , Muzamil Shah , Gao Xianlong

Landau level (LL) engineered photonic spin Hall effect (PSHE) holds great promise for nanoscale manipulation and steering of magneto-optical transport in two-dimensional atomic systems. Herein, we theoretically investigate PSHE modulated by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Qiaoyun Ma , Hui Dou , Yiting Chen , Guangyi Jia , Xinxing Zhou

The study of spin-orbit coupling of photons has attracted much attention in recent years, and leads to many potential applications in optics. In the recently discovered metamaterial -- photonic crystals with Weyl points, the…

Optics · Physics 2017-04-04 Luyang Wang , Shao-Kai Jian

We extend the electrodynamics of two dimensional electron gases to account for the extrinsic spin Hall effect (SHE). The theory is applied to doped graphene decorated with a random distribution of absorbates that induce spin-orbit coupling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-27 Chunli Huang , Yidong Chong , Giovanni Vignale , Miguel A. Cazalilla

Photonic spin Hall effect is a manifestation of spin-orbit interaction of light and can be measured by a transverse shift \lambda of photons with opposite spins. The precise measurement of transverse shifts can enable many spin-related…

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

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 photonic spin Hall effect (PSHE), a result of spin-orbit interaction, has attracted significant interest because of its fundamental importance and potential applications. Optical losses are ubiquitous, which inherently suppress the…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-09 Kezhou Du , Aizaz Khan , Lei Gao , Muzamil Shah , Xinxing Zhou , Dongliang Gao

The spin Hall effect (SHE) of light in layered nanostructures is investigated theoretically in this paper. A general propagation model describing the spin-dependent transverse splitting in the SHE of light is established from the viewpoint…

Coupling of electric and magnetic responses of a scatterer known as bianisotropy enables rich physics and unique optical phenomena, including asymmetric absorption or reflection, one-way transparency, and photonic topological phases. Here…

The spin Hall effect (SHE), which converts a charge current into a transverse spin current, has long been believed to be a phenomenon induced by the spin--orbit coupling. Here, we propose an alternative mechanism to realize the intrinsic…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-22 Yang Zhang , Jakub Zelezny , Yan Sun , Jeroen van den Brink , Binghai Yan

We develop a geometric photonic spin Hall effect (PSHE) which manifests as spin-dependent shift in momentum space. It originates from an effective space-variant Pancharatnam-Berry (PB) phase created by artificially engineering the…

Optics · Physics 2014-07-04 Xiaohui Ling , Xinxing Zhou , Xunong Yi , Hailu Luo , Shuangchun Wen

For light, its spin can be independent of the spatial distribution of its wave function, whereas its intrinsic orbital angular momentum does depend on this distribution. This difference suggests that the spin Hall effect might differ from…

Optics · Physics 2025-01-29 Wei-Si Qiu , Li-Li Yang , Dan-Dan Lian , Peng-Ming Zhang

The spin polarization induced by the spin Hall effect (SHE) in thin films typically points out of the plane. This is rooted on the specific symmetries of traditionally studied systems, not in a fundamental constraint. Recently, experiments…

In this paper we theoretically investigate the photonic spin Hall effect (SHE) of a Gaussian beam reflected from the interface between air and topological insulators (TIs). The photonic SHE is attributed to spin-orbit coupling and manifests…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-17 Xinxing Zhou , Jin Zhang , Xiaohui Ling , Shizhen Chen , Hailu Luo , Shuangchun Wen

We show the existence of spin-Hall effect of light (SHEL) in an atomic medium which is made anisotropic via electromagnetically induced transparency. The medium is made birefringent by applying an additional linearly polarized coupling…

Optics · Physics 2019-01-03 Jinze Wu , Junxiang Zhang , Shiyao Zhu , Girish S. Agarwal

Photonic structures offer unique opportunities for controlling light-matter interaction, including the photonic spin Hall effect associated with the transverse spin-dependent displacement of light that propagates in specially designed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-21 A. P. Slobozhanyuk , A. N. Poddubny , I. S. Sinev , A. K. Samusev , Y. F. Yu , A. I. Kuznetsov , A. E. Miroshnichenko , Yu. S. Kivshar

Supplementing our STM and electron emission studies investigations, concluding in electron pairing in strong laser fields [1], further time-of-flight electron emission studies were carried out, changing the angle of polarization of the…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-02 N. Kroó , P. Rácz , S. Varró

The recent synthesis of two-dimensional staggered materials opens up burgeoning opportunities to study optical spin-orbit interactions in semiconducting Dirac-like systems. We unveil topological phase transitions in the photonic spin Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 W. J. M. Kort-Kamp