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Ellipse and hyperbola are two well-known curves in mathematics with numerous applications in various fields, but their properties and inherent differences in spin optics are less understood. Here, we investigate the peculiar optical spin…

Optics · Physics 2016-10-17 Yanjun Bao , Shuai Zu , Wei Liu , Lei Zhou , Xing Zhu , Zheyu Fang

We employ inelastic light scattering with magnetic fields to study intersubband spin plasmons in a quantum well. We demonstrate the existence of a giant collective spin-orbit (SO) field that splits the spin-plasmon spectrum into a triplet.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-29 Florent Baboux , Florent Perez , Carsten A. Ullrich , Irene D'Amico , Javier Gómez , Mathieu Bernard

Successful incorporation of the spin degree of freedom in semiconductor technology requires the development of a new paradigm allowing for a scalable, non-destructive electrical detection of the spin-polarization of injected charge carriers…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. Wunderlich , A. C. Irvine , Jairo Sinova , B. G. Park , X. L. Xu , B. Kaestner , V. Novak , T. Jungwirth

We demonstrate the formation of orbital and spin Hall effects (OHE/SHE) in the 1T phase of non-magnetic transition metal dichalcogenides. With the aid of density functional theory calculations and model Hamiltonian studies on MX$_2$ (M =…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-21 Pratik Sahu , Jatin Kumar Bidika , Bubunu Biswal , S. Satpathy , B. R. K. Nanda

The photonic spin Hall effect of light beams reflected from the surfaces of various two-dimensional hexagonal crystalline structures, considering their associated time-reversal $\mathcal{T}$ and inversion $\mathcal{I}$ symmetries, is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-05 Muzamil Shah , Muhammad Sabieh Anwar , Reza Asgari , Gao Xianlong

In inhomogeneous media, electromagnetic-wave rays deviate from the trajectories predicted by the leading-order geometrical optics. This effect, called the spin Hall effect of light, is typically neglected in ray-tracing codes used for…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-08-11 Yichen Fu , I. Y. Dodin , Hong Qin

We study transport in normal metals in an external magnetic field. This system exhibits an interplay between a transverse spin imbalance (spin Hall effect) caused by the spin-orbit interaction, a Hall effect via the Lorentz force, and spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. V. Shchelushkin , Arne Brataas

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

A theory of the circular photogalvanic effect caused by spin splitting in quantum wells is developed. Direct interband transitions between the hole and electron size-quantized subbands are considered. The photocurrent excitation spectrum is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 L. E. Golub

We show that the extrinsic spin Hall effect can be engineered in monolayer graphene by decoration with small doses of adatoms, molecules, or nanoparticles originating local spin-orbit perturbations. The analysis of the single impurity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-18 A. Ferreira , T. G. Rappoport , M. A. Cazalilla , A. H. Castro Neto

Non-Hermitian cavity magnomechanics (CMM), which incorporates the magnon-photon and magnon-phonon interactions simultaneously, enables rich physical phenomena, including exceptional-point-enhanced sensing, and offers pathways toward…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-18 Shah Fahad , Muzamil Shah , Gao Xianlong

A biref review is presented on resonant spin Hall effect, where a tiny external electric field induces a saturated spin Hall current in a 2-dimensional electron or hole gas in a perpendicular magnetic field. The phenomenon is attributted to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-04-14 Fu-Chun Zhang , Shun-Qing Shen

The spin Hall effect of light attracted enormous attention in the literature due to the ongoing progress in developing of new optically active materials and metamaterials with non-trivial spin-orbit interaction. Recently, it was shown that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-01 Xu-Guang Huang , Andrey V. Sadofyev

Within the framework of optical Dirac theory, we present a field-theoretical model of spin-orbit interaction and photonic spin/orbit Hall effects. Our approach reformulates light propagation along helical paths as solving the Maxwell…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-04 Lili Yang , Longlong Feng

Photoexcitation and shaping of a propagating surface plasmon polariton (SPP) on silver and gold microstructures are well established and lead to the discovery of the plasmonic spin-Hall effect recently. Whereas silver is often the material…

The topological Hall effect is used extensively to study chiral spin textures in various materials. However, the factors controlling its magnitude in technologically-relevant thin films remain uncertain. Using variable temperature…

Surface polaritons, e.g., surface plasmon polaritons, are invaluable tools in nanophotonics. However, considerable plasmon loss narrows the application regime of plasmonic devices. Here we reveal some general conditions for lossless surface…

Optics · Physics 2017-02-08 Yadong Xu , Jian-Hua Jiang , Huanyang Chen

By means of the optical metric, we investigate the propagation of a polarized light in an inhomogeneous medium in this paper. We find that the evolution of photons is affected by the spin-spin interaction of photons, besides the spin-orbit…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-15 Hehe Li , Zhigang Bu , Yuee Luo , Wenbo Chen , Peiyong Ji

The spin orbit interactions (SOI) of light mediated by single scattering from plasmon resonant metal nanoparticles (nanorods and nanospheres) are investigated using explicit theory based on Jones and Stokes-Mueller polarimetry formalism.…

We study the spin-orbit coupling induced by the splitting between TE and TM optical modes in a photonic honeycomb lattice. Using a tight-binding approach, we calculate analytically the band structure. Close to the Dirac point,we derive an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 A. V. Nalitov , G. Malpuech , H. Terças , D. Solnyshkov