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We report on time-resolved ultrafast optical spectroscopy study of the topological insulator (TI) Bi$_2$Se$_3$. We unravel that a net spin polarization can not only be generated using circularly polarized light via interband transitions…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-01-26 M. C. Wang , S. Qiao , Z. Jiang , S. N. Luo , J. Qi

The spin Hall effect (SHE) is a generation of spin polarization for moving spin carriers in materials under an external electric field and has been observed in semiconductors, metals, and insulators at or below room temperature. Recent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-01 Baochi Fu , Longgang Pang , Huichao Song , Yi Yin

The optical Spin-Hall effect originates from the interaction between the spin angular momentum (SAM) and extrinsic orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light, leading to mutual interrelations between the polarization and trajectory of light in…

Spin-to-orbit conversion of light is a dynamical optical phenomenon in non-paraxial fields leading to various manifestations of the spin and orbital Hall effect. However, effects of spin-orbit interaction (SOI) have not been explored…

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…

Electrical detection of topological magnetic textures such as skyrmions is currently limited to conducting materials. While magnetic insulators offer key advantages for skyrmion technologies with high speed and low loss, they have not yet…

We report on the possibility to detect hinge spin polarization in magnetic topological insulators by resistance measurements. By implementing a three-dimensional model of magnetic topological insulators into a multi-terminal device with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-29 Pablo M. Perez-Piskunow , Stephan Roche

In this work, we predict a hinged quantum spin-Hall (HQSH) effect featured by a pair of helical hinge modes in antiferromagnetic (AFM) topological insulator (TI) multilayers. This pair of helical hinge modes are localized on the hinges of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-22 Yue-Ran Ding , Dong-Hui Xu , Chui-Zhen Chen , X. C. Xie

Observation of photonic spin Hall effect (SHE) in dielectric-based metasurfaces with rotational symmetry breaking is presented. We find that the spin-dependent splitting is a unique angular splitting in the real position space, and is…

Structured light beams with engineered topological properties offer a powerful means to control spin angular momentum (SAM) and optical chirality, key quantities shaped by spin-orbit interaction (SOI) in light. Such effects are typically…

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

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

The planar Hall effect (PHE), previously observed in Weyl and Dirac semimetals due to the chiral anomaly, emerges with a different origin in topological insulators (TIs), where in-plane magnetic fields induce resistivity anisotropy. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-16 Mohammad Shafiei , Milorad V. Milošević

The intrinsic spin Hall effect (SHE) originates from the topology of the Bloch bands in momentum space. The duality between real space and momentum space calls for a spin Hall effect induced from a real space topology in analogy to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-09 Gen Yin , Yizhou Liu , Yafis Barlas , Jiadong Zang , Roger K. Lake

We investigate spin-charge conversion phenomena in hybrid structures of topological insulator (TI) thin films and magnetic insulators. We find an anisotropic inverse spin-galvanic effect (ISGE) that yields a highly tunable spin-orbit torque…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-11 Ali G. Moghaddam , Alireza Qaiumzadeh , Anna Dyrdał , Jamal Berakdar

One of the most striking manifestations of electronic properties of topological insulators is the dependence of the photocurrent direction on the helicity of circularly polarized optical excitation. The helicity dependent photocurrents,…

Recent developments in the field of photonic spin Hall effect (SHE) offer new opportunities for advantageous measurement of the optical parameters (refractive index, thickness, etc.) of nanostructures and enable spin-based photonics…

Optics · Physics 2014-12-02 Xiaohui Ling , Xinxing Zhou , Weixing Shu , Hailu Luo , Shuangchun Wen

Topological protection in photonics offers new prospects for guiding and manipulating classical and quantum information. The mechanism of spin-orbit coupling promises the emergence of edge states that are helical; exhibiting unidirectional…

Optics · Physics 2018-11-28 Nikhil Parappurath , Filippo Alpeggiani , L. Kuipers , Ewold Verhagen

Planar Topological Hall effect (PTHE) is known to arise from in-plane skyrmion tubes with an external magnetic field applied in the plane of the charge current. Here, we propose that the PTHE can robustly appear also from an unexpected…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-09-02 Narayan Mohanta , Satoshi Okamoto , Elbio Dagotto

The enhanced photonic spin hall effect (PSHE) plays a positive role in the flexible manipulation of photons. Here, by combining Dirac semimetals with Bragg reflector constructed by one-dimensional photonic crystal, we theoretically design a…

Optics · Physics 2022-06-22 Keqiang Yin , Luzihao Li , Qijun Ma , Jie Jiang , Leyong Jiang