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We present a method to quantify the spin Hall angle (SHA) with spin pumping and microwave photoresistance measurements. With this method, we separate the inverse spin Hall effect (ISHE) from other unwanted effects for permalloy/Pt bilayers…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-10 Z. Feng , J. Hu , L. Sun , B. You , D. Wu , J. Du , W. Zhang , A. Hu , Y. Yang , D. M. Tang , B. S. Zhang , H. F. Ding

The spin Hall effect of light (SHEL), which refers to a spin-dependent and transverse splitting at refraction and reflection phenomena, inherently depends on the polarization states of the incidence. Most of the previous research have…

Optics · Physics 2021-01-25 Minkyung Kim , Dasol Lee , Junsuk Rho

We recently reported measurements of spin polarization in W and Pt thin films produced by the spin Hall effect (SHE) using a magneto-optic Kerr effect (MOKE) system based on crossed polarizers that detects changes in light intensity. Riego…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-14 O. M. J. van t Erve , A. T. Hanbicki , K. M. McCreary , C. H. Li , B. T. Jonker

We report a novel spin injection and detection mechanism via the anomalous Hall effect in a ferromagnetic metal. The anomalous spin Hall effect (ASHE) refers to the transverse spin current generated within the ferromagnet. We utilize the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-27 K. S. Das , W. Y. Schoemaker , B. J. van Wees , I. J. Vera-Marun

The generation, manipulation and detection of spin-polarized electrons in nanostructures define the main challenges of spin-based electronics[1]. Amongst the different approaches for spin generation and manipulation, spin-orbit coupling,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Sergio O. Valenzuela , M. Tinkham

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 show the existence of a very large spin Hall effect of light (SHEL) in single photon plasmonics based on spontaneous emission and the dipole-dipole interaction initiated energy transfer (FRET) on plasmonic platforms. The spin orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-29 G. S. Agarwal , S. -A. Biehs

We demonstrate a nonlinear Hall effect due to the boundary spin accumulation in Pt films grown on Al2O3 substrates. This Hall effect and the previously demonstrated Hanle magnetoresistance provide a complete picture of the spin-precession…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-25 Jing Li , Andrew H. Comstock , Dali Sun , Xiaoshan Xu

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…

Topological polaritons, combining the robustness of the topological protected edge states to defects and disorder with the strong nonlinear properties of polariton bosons, represent an excellent platform to investigate novel photonic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-09 Jiahuan Ren , Teng Long , Chunling Gu , Hongbing Fu , Dmitry Solnyshkov , Guillaume Malpuech , Qing Liao

Spin-orbit coupling is a fundamental mechanism that connects the spin of a charge carrier with its momentum. Likewise, in the optical domain, a synthetic spin-orbit coupling is accessible, for instance, by engineering optical anisotropies…

Spin orbit interaction and the resulting Spin Hall effect of light are under recent intensive investigations because of their fundamental nature and potential applications. Here, we report an extraordinary spin specific beam shift of light…

We investigate the photonic spin Hall effect (PSHE) and the Goos-H\"anchen shift (GH shift) in semi-Dirac materials. Through theoretical modeling, we demonstrate that the anisotropic dielectric function in semi-Dirac materials play a…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-15 Cheng Hong-Liang , Zhang Yong-Mei

Although several efforts have been taken to enhance the photonic spin Hall shift in deep-subwavelength region, according to effective medium theory, the fundamental confliction between near-zero reflection coefficient and near-zero incident…

We predict spin Hall angles up to 80% for ultrathin noble metal films with substitutional Bi impurities. The colossal spin Hall effect is caused by enhancement of the spin Hall conductivity in reduced sample dimension and a strong reduction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-26 Christian Herschbach , Dmitry V. Fedorov , Martin Gradhand , Ingrid Mertig

We theoretically investigate an extrinsic spin Hall effect (SHE) in semiconductor heterostructures due to the scattering by an artificial potential created by antidot, STM tip, etc. The potential is electrically tunable. First, we formulate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Mikio Eto , Tomohiro Yokoyama

In this study, we derive the non-relativistic Hamiltonian for electrons within the Schwarzschild metric from covariant Dirac equations, using both the weak field approximation and the Foldy-Wouthuysen transformation. This Hamiltonian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-22 Dan-Dan Lian , Wei-Si Qiu , Peng-Ming Zhang

Physical properties such as the conductivity are usually classified according to the symmetry of the underlying system using Neumann's principle, which gives an upper bound for the number of independent components of the corresponding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-14 Longjun Xiang , Fuming Xu , Luyang Wang , Jian Wang

The spin Hall effect (SHE) can generate a pure spin current by an electric current, which is promisingly used to electrically control magnetization. To reduce power consumption of this control, a giant spin Hall angle (SHA) in the SHE is…

We propose an optical counterpart of the quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect in a two-dimensional photonic crystal composed of a gyrotropic medium exhibiting both gyroelectric and gyromagnetic properties simultaneously. Such QSH effect shows…