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The photonic spin Hall effect (SHE), featured by a spin-dependent transverse shift of an impinging optical beam driven by its polarization handedness, has many applications including precise metrology and spin-based nanophotonic devices. It…

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

The photonic spin Hall effect (PSHE), a hallmark of spin-orbit interaction of light, has long been considered a promising route toward spin-controlled functionalities in nanophotonics. Yet, its practical realization has been severely…

The photonic spin Hall effect (PSHE) in surface plasmon resonance (SPR) structures has great potential for various polarization-sensitive applications and devices. Here, using optical weak measurement, we observe spin-dependent and…

We theorize the spin Hall effect of light (SHEL) on a nano-metal film and demonstrate it experimentally via weak measurements. A general propagation model to describe the relationship between the spin-orbit coupling and the thickness of the…

Optics · Physics 2012-04-27 Xinxing Zhou , Zhicheng Xiao , Hailu Luo , Shuangchun Wen

The spin Hall effect (SHE) of light is a useful metrological tool for characterizing the structure parameters variations of nanostructure. In this letter we propose using the SHE of light to identify the graphene layers. This technique is…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-11 Xinxing Zhou , Xiaohui Ling , Hailu Luo , Shuangchun Wen

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

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

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

The photonic Spin Hall Effect (SHE) causes a polarization-dependent transverse shift of light at an interface. There is a significant research interest in controlling and enhancing the photonic SHE. In this paper, we theoretically…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-17 Muhammad Waseem

The photonic spin Hall effect (SHE) can be regarded as a direct optical analogy of the SHE in electronic systems where a refractive index gradient plays the role of electric potential. However, it has been demonstrated that the effective…

Optics · Physics 2017-06-28 Mengxia Liu , Liang Cai , Shizhen Chen , Yachao Liu , Hailu Luo , Shuangchun Wen

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 (OSHE) is a transport phenomenon of exciton polaritons in semiconductor microcavities, caused by the polaritonic spin-orbit interaction, that leads to the formation of spin textures. In the semiconductor cavity,…

The non-dissipative quasistatic longitudinal optical response of insulators is characterized by an intrinsic geometric capacitance, determined by the ratio of the quantum metric to the energy gap, as recently stablished. We study the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-06 Yahir Fernández-Méndez , Ramón Carrillo-Bastos , Jesús A. Maytorena

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…

It has been recently shown that the coherent component of light propagating in transversally disordered media, the so-called coherent mode, exhibits an optical spin Hall effect (SHE). In non-resonant materials, however, this phenomenon…

Optics · Physics 2023-06-30 Federico Carlini , Nicolas Cherroret

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

We reveal an enhanced and switchable spin Hall effect (SHE) of light near Brewster angle on reflection both theoretically and experimentally. The obtained spin-dependent splitting reaches 3200nm near Brewster angle, 50 times larger than the…

Optics · Physics 2011-12-21 Hailu Luo , Xinxing Zhou , Weixing Shu , Shuangchun Wen , Dianyuan Fan

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

We propose a theoretical model to obtain the photonic spin Hall effect (SHE) in an optomechanical nanocavity using a graphene bilayer as the intracavity medium. In our model, the pump and probe fields coherently drive the first mirror,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-19 Muqaddar Abbas , Muhammad Awais Altaf , Pei Zhang , Muhammad Waseem
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